The New York Constitutional Convention and Social Welfare

1938 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-504 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Constitutional Convention

Protecting the Battered Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 902-902
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Physically Abused ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Battered Child ◽  
Pediatric Neurologist

Elsewhere in this issue of Pediatrics the problem of the physically abused child is considered in papers and in a Commentary. This small pamphlet, a joint meeting at the Annual Forum of the National Conference of Social Welfare, held in New York, May 31, 1962, is a useful source of well-considered information for those who wish a further reference. The authors: an executive of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, a pediatric neurologist, a psychiatrist, and a counsel of the Boston Legal Aid Society, know what they are writing about and present what they know with useful simplicity and brevity.

Becoming “A Lover of the Metropolis,” 1895–1906

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Santangelo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
New York State ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
York State ◽  
Metropolitan Government ◽  
Good Government

Rather than grinding to a standstill following defeat at the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention, city work continued and new organizations emerged. Lillie Devereux Blake and her peers more regularly decided to hold suffrage events in elegant spaces like the Waldorf-Astoria at century’s turn, capitalizing on the city’s haute geography to enhance the movement’s respectability. At the same time, they divided over how to respond to the good government initiatives reconfiguring the metropolitan government. Whether supporting them or remaining ambivalent, many inserted discussion of women’s rights into conversations about improving the municipality. A personal feud between Susan B. Anthony and Lillie Devereux Blake in the succeeding years produced a power vacuum in Gotham at century’s close. The resultant vacuum ensured that Gotham’s campaign would not be bogged down by outsiders’ mandates.

scholarly journals The (Questionable) Importance of New York at the Constitutional Convention

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Paul Carlsen ◽  
Jac Heckelman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Favorable Outcome ◽  
Constitutional Convention

The u.s. Constitution was first developed at the 1787 Convention, where each state’s vote was determined by the majority preference of its delegates. Two of the delegates from New York, John Lansing and Robert Yates, both strident anti-Federalists, left the Convention early due to disagreement with the proceedings. Their departure cost New York its vote for the rest of the Convention, and has been considered by some scholars to be an important event. We investigate how often New York’s vote was critical to proposals passing or failing, both when present and counter-factually when absent. We find New York’s vote could have been critical on only 28 of 578 (roughly 5%) votes. Most of the 28 votes were on nominal issues. However, paradoxically, it appears that a more favorable outcome for Lansing and Yates might have occurred had New York also missed the very first vote of the Convention and the last vote on apportionment prior to “The Great Compromise”.

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