Carton v. Secretary of State
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by John J. Carton, president of the constitutional convention, to compel George A. Prescott, secretary of State, to submit the proposed Constitution at the November general election.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
The people of Michigan in preparing and adopting their first Constitution provided means for a revision or change of the entire Constitution, by authorizing the legislature to recommend to the electors to vote for or against a convention, and, if the electors voted for it, by authorizing the legislature to provide by law for calling suqh convention to consist of not a less number than both branches of the legislature. Section 2, article 13, Constitution of 1835.
Pursuant to this provision, a convention was called to assemble in 1850. The entire Constitution was revised, submitted as a whole to…
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