BUILDING FOR A PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
(& Scholarship on NYS Constitutional Issues & Governance -- Beginning with CJA's Public Interest Lawsuit vs
NYS' Highest Constitutional Officers & 3 Government Branches)

                                           click here for:  CJA's People's lawsuit vs NYS                                                      

CJA's July 9, 2012 letter to Benjamin Kallos, Executive Director of Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution -- "RE:  Actualizing the Name, Purpose, and Methodology of the Citizens’ Committee for an Effective Constitution"   

Enclosures:      
   (1) CJA’s July 19, 2011 letter to Attorney General Schneiderman,  analyzing the Court of Appeals’ February 23, 2010 decision in the judges’ judicial pay raise lawsuits
   (2) Executive Summary to CJA’s October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
   (3) Press Release of CJA’s March 30, 2012 lawsuit
   (4)  Elena Sassower's September 9, 1997 letter to B. Thomas Golisano, with its attached transcript excerpt from the July 7, 1997 meeting of We the People Congress

WEBSITE OF CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONSTITUTION -- www.effectiveny.org

CJA's July 9, 2012 transmitting e-mail to Jay Strell, Communications/Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution -- "Subject:  Actualizing the Name, Purpose, and Methodology of the Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution"

CJA's July 9, 2012 e-mail message, sent via Citizens' Committee website

CJA's July 9, 2012 e-mail to kallos @gmail.com  -- "Subject:  Please also send to Professor Gerald Benjamin  my letter 'Actualizing the Name, Purpose, and Methodology of the Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution'"

CJA's July 24, 2012 e-mail to Executive Director Kallos -- "Subject: What is You Response to CJA's July 9, 2012 letter -- 'Actualizing the Name, Purpose, and Methodology of the Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution'"  (cc to Professor Benjamin, Assembly Minority Leader Kolb)

CJA's July 24, 2012 e-mail to Professor/Director Gerald Benjamin, Director Thomas Gais, Professor/Director Seymour Lachman, Senior Fellow E.J. McMahon -- "Subject: Building Scholarship on NYS Constitutional Issues & Governance -- beginning with CJA's Public Interest Lawsuit vs NYS' Highest Constitutional Officers & 3 Government Branches"

                Professor Benjamin's July 24, 2012 automated responding e-mail

                Professor Benjamin's July 24, 2012 e-mail --"Meterials Left with Me"

                
CJA's July 24, 2012 e-mail to Professor/Director James Gardner -- "Subject: Building Scholarship on NYS Constitutional Issues & Governance -- Beginning with CJA's Public Interest Lawsuit vs NYS' Highest Constitutional Officers & 3 Government Branches"

CJA's July 25, 2012 e-mail to Professor/Director Vincent Bonaventre -- "Subject: Building Scholarship on NYS Constitutional Issues & Governance -- Beginning with CJA's Public Interest Lawsuit vs NYS' Highest Constitutional Officers & 3 Government Branches"

                  Professor Bonaventre's July 25, 2012 responding e-mail
 

CJA's August 21, 2012 e-mail to E.J. McMahon -- "Subject: Countdown to the 2012 Primary & General Elections -- Safeguarding our Democracy by DOING WHAT YOU DO BEST!"

CJA's August 21, 2012 e-mail to Seymour Lachman -- "Subject: Countdown to the 2012 Primary & General Elections -- and to the 2017 Ballot Question Whether There Should Be a NYS Constitutional Convention"

BUILDING A ROSTER OF CITIZEN ACTIVISTS

         Bob Schulz -- http://www.givemeliberty.org/constitutionlobby/

         James Ostrowski, Esq.  http://politicalclassdismissed.com

         ChangeAgent  -- http://www.nysconstitutionalconvention.org

                  CJA's July 9, 2012 e-mail "Bravo on your civic activism & website"

         Paul Hudson & Floyd Rayburn:  --  http://www.itsmyny.net

BUILDING A ROSTER OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS, THINK TANKS, & SCHOLARS OF THE NYS CONSTITUTION & NYS GOVERNMENT

HUGH CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM (at Wagner College)  
              Professor Seymour Lachman, Director

                  "...colleges and universities are the institutions best suited for conducting
                   the studies necessary to shape and disseminate an agenda for reform:

                        -- The academic environment provides multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary resources for analyzing proposed reforms, as well as the impact of proposals once they are enacted.

                        -- The academic environment, with its ideals and traditions of rigorous and dispassionate nonpartisan analysis, is far better suited than any number of ideological think tanks to lay the groundwork for developing a broad consensus of public support for reform proposals.
                        --  The academic environment is oriented toward creating multigenerational interests in the need to adapt proposals as conditions change over time."  [from the Institute's website]
 

ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT (at SUNY-Albany)
          Thomas Gais, Director

           

EMPIRE CENTER FOR NEW YORK STATE POLICY (Manhattan Institute-Albany)
          E,J. McMahon, Founder & Senior Fellow

                          "New York's Exploding Pension Costs" (2010)

PROFESSOR GERALD BENJAMIN (at SUNY-New Paltz)

       "The Mandatory Constitutional Convention Question Referendum:
       The New York Experience in National Context",
       Albany Law Review, Vol. 65, pp. 1017-1050


JAECKLE CENTER FOR STATE AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY  (at SUNY-Buffalo Law School)

          James Gardner, Director & Law School Professor

CENTER FOR JUDICIAL PROCESS  (at Albany Law School)

          Vincent Bonaventre, Director

BUILDING A ROSTER OF CIVIC PHILANTHROPISTS

   Bill Samuels, Founder -- New Roosevelt Foundation
                                       Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution
 

BUILDING A ROSTER OF CONSTITUTION-SUPPORTING PUBLIC OFFICIALS

    Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb -- http://www.reformny.org/

"New York's Last, Best Hope for Real Reform: The Case for Convening a State Constitutional Convention", Albany Government Law Review, Vol. 4, pp. 601-624 (2011)  

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012 FORUM:
"A New New York: The Constitutional Dimension", sponsored by Effective NY.org, Rockefeller Institute of Gov't (at SUNY-Albany); Albany Law School Government Law Center; Center for Research, Regional Education & Outreach (at SUNY-New Paltz)  

click here for:  VIDEO  (at 17:45 minutes) of Minority Leader Brian Kolb -- challenged by CJA Director Elena Sassower on what he was going to do to do -- as Minority Leader -- to achieve legislative rule change

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WHERE ARE WE NOW? 
click here for:  HOLDING GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS GRAND LARCENY OF THE PUBLIC FISC & OTHER CORRUPTION 
(corruption & ethics complaints)

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