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Board of Elections<\/a><\/p>\n Legislative Reference Bureau<\/a><\/p>\n Constitutions of Hawaii<\/a>,\u00a0 University of Hawaii School of Law.<\/p>\n 1950 Constitutional Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n Proceedings of the Constitutional\u00a0Convention of Hawaii, 1950,<\/p>\n 1968 Constitutional Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of Hawaii of 1968, Honolulu: State of Hawaii, 1973.<\/p>\n 1978 Constitutional Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of Hawaii of 1978.\u00a0 Honolulu: State of Hawaii, 1980.<\/p>\n Fischer, Victor, A New Constitutional Convention For Alaska? The Lessons of Hawaii 1978<\/a>, Prepared for the Interim Committee on the Constitutional Convention of the Alaska State Legislature, March 10, 1980.\u00a0 In the judgment of J.H. Snider, this is the most thorough and best of the scholarly studies that cover Hawaii’s 1978 state constitutional convention.<\/p>\n Kahle, Richard F., and Samuel B. K. Change, editors, Hawaii Constitutional Convention Studies 1978, Hawaii\u00a0Legislative Reference Bureau<\/a>. \u00a0The Hawaii Constitutional Studies 1978 were undertaken at the direction of the legislature and are an attempt to present in understandable form many of the possible issues and the arguments on both sides of such issues that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1978 may wish to consider. The following is only a small subset of the studies; the one on Article XV: Revision and Amendment, may be most relevant.<\/p>\n 1976 Constitutional Convention Referendum<\/strong><\/p>\n The Constitutional Convention: Yes or No<\/a>, Legislative Reference Bureau, November 2, 1976.<\/p>\n 2008 Constitutional Convention Referendum<\/strong><\/p>\n Amending the Hawaii State Constitution: A Citizen’s Guide<\/a>, Prepared by the House Majority Staff Office, May 2008.<\/p>\n Projecting The Cost Of A State Constitutional Convention–Final Report<\/a>, Prepared by the Constitutional Convention Cost Task Force, August 1, 2008, 44 pages.<\/p>\n Pan, Peter, et al., Cost Estimates For A Constitutional Convention<\/a>, Report No. 1, 2008,\u00a0Legislative Reference Bureau, August 2008.<\/p>\n 2018 Constitutional Convention Referendum<\/strong><\/p>\n Amending The Constitution<\/a>, Public Access Room Newsletter, Legislative Reference Bureau, September 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overviews of Hawaii’s Constitutional Convention Tradition.\u00a0<\/strong> The best overview of Hawaii’s state constitutional convention history is\u00a0Amy K. Trask’s\u00a0History of Revision: The Constitutional Convention Question in Hawai\u2019i, 1950-2008<\/a>, 31 U. Haw. L. Rev. 291 (2008-2009). Her historical narrative, which fills the bulk of her article, is the best part.<\/p>\n The most widely cited overview of Hawaii’s Constitution and constitutional convention history is\u00a0Anne Feder Lee’s\u00a0The Hawaii state constitution: a reference guide.\u00a0<\/i>Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. The book is one of many books published by Greenwood Press as part of its state constitution series and follows a cookie cutter format. The series was reprinted by Oxford University Press in the early 2000s.\u00a0 It generally provide an accessible and brief summary of Hawaii’s state constitutional convention history–but primarily from a legal rather than a political perspective. Alas, it is both outdated and exceptionally weak in covering the Constitution’s Article\u00a0XVII, Revision & Amendment. Most disturbing to this author, its theory of constitutionalism, which under-girds the work in an absent-minded way, is controversial without acknowledging competing viewpoints.<\/p>\n Overviews of Specific Hawaii Constitutional Conventions.\u00a0<\/strong> Hawaii has had two state constitutional conventions since statehood in 1959.\u00a0 My favorite study of the 1978 constitutional convention is Victor Fischer’s\u00a0A New Constitutional Convention For Alaska? The Lessons of Hawaii 1978<\/a>, which wasn’t a study either prepared for academics or Hawaiians. It was written for Alaskan government officials preparing for an upcoming Alaskan state constitutional convention referendum. The most widely cited academic study of the 1978 constitutional convention is Norman Meller and Richard H. Kosaki’s “Hawaii’s constitutional convention\u20131978.”\u00a0National Civic Review<\/i>\u00a069, no. 5 (1980): 248-271.<\/p>\n My favorite study of Hawaii’s 1968 constitutional convention is Sean A. Kelleher’s The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Hawaii, 1968, which<\/em>\u00a0was published as Kelleher’s Ph.D. dissertation from Brown University. This is the most detailed study of any of Hawaii’s individual constitutional conventions.<\/p>\n My favorite study of Hawaii’s 1950 constitutional convention is S. Gale Lowrie’s “Hawaii Drafts a Constitution,” 1951. Like Fischer, he was an academic from another state trying to learn lessons for his own state.<\/p>\n In comparison to some other states, Hawaii has a relatively small scholarly literature on its state constitutional convention tradition. Only several days of work are needed to catch up with the scholarship.<\/p>\n Barnard, Mary Ann. “Enabling and implementing legislation and state constitutional convention committee reports.”\u00a0U. Haw. L. Rev.<\/i>\u00a06 (1984): 523.<\/p>\n Bartholomew, Paul C., and Robert M. Kamins. “The Hawaiian Constitution: A Structure for Good Government.” American Bar Association Journal (1959): 1145-1222.<\/p>\n Cornwell, Elmer E., Jay S. Goodman, and Wayne R. Swanson.\u00a0State constitutional conventions<\/i>. Praeger, 1975. On the 1968 convention.<\/p>\n Haas, Michael. How to Demolish Racism: Lessons from the State of Hawai’i<\/em>. Lexington Books, 2016, pp. 115-117.<\/p>\n Kelleher, Sean Aloysius. “The politics of constitutional revision in Hawaii, 1968.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University (1973).<\/p>\n Kosaki, Richard H. “Constitutions and constitutional conventions of Hawaii: 1840-1978<\/a>.” (1978).<\/p>\n Lee, Anne Feder.\u00a0The Hawaii state constitution: a reference guide<\/i>. No. 14. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. This book was later republished as\u00a0Lee, Anne Feder.\u00a0The Hawaii state constitution<\/i><\/a>. Oxford University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n Lowrie, S. Gale. “Hawaii Drafts a Constitution.”\u00a0U. Cin. L. Rev.<\/i>20 (1951): 215-38.\u00a0On the 1950 convention\/constitution.<\/p>\n Lowrie, S. Gale. “A Constitution for Hawaii.” The American Political Science Review 45, no. 3 (1951): 770-74.<\/p>\n Kelleher, Sean Aloysius. “The politics of constitutional revision in Hawaii, 1968.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University (1973).\u00a0Focuses on the 1968 convention but also has a good history of Hawaii’s constitutional conventions going back to the early 19th Century.<\/p>\n Meller, Norman. “With an understanding heart: constitution making in Hawaii.” National Municipal League, 1971. Not available online.<\/p>\n Meller, Norman, and Richard H. Kosaki. “Hawaii’s constitutional convention\u20131978.”\u00a0National Civic Review<\/i>\u00a069, no. 5 (1980): 248-271.\u00a0\u00a0On the 1978 convention.<\/p>\n Sigal,\u00a0Benjamin C.,\u00a0 and Joyce M. Najita, editors, Convention Issues: The Changing Constitution.<\/em>\u00a0Labor-Management Education Program, University of Hawaii, Trask, Amy K.,\u00a0History of Revision: The Constitutional Convention Question in Hawai\u2019i, 1950-2008<\/a>, 31 U. Haw. L. Rev. 291 (2008-2009).<\/p>\n Yip, Elijah,\u00a0When Reason Offends Common Sense<\/a>, Hawaii State Bar Association, July 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Hawaii’s 1894 Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention, Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n Strum, Albert L. “The Procedure of State Constitutional Change-With Special Emphasis on the South and Florida.”\u00a0Fla. St. UL Rev.<\/i>\u00a05 (1977): 569.<\/a><\/p>\n Denzau, Arthur T. “Constitutional change and agenda control.”\u00a0Public Choice<\/i>\u00a047, no. 1 (1985): 183-217.<\/a><\/p>\n The last time Congress created a new state<\/a>, Constitution Daily<\/em>, National Constitution Center, March 12, 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Hawai\u02bbi State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse Information Related to Hawai\u02bbi’s November 6, 2018 State Constitutional Convention Referendum Government & Academic Sources Hawaii’s Current and Previous\u00a0Constitutions Board of Elections Legislative Reference Bureau Constitutions of Hawaii,\u00a0 University of Hawaii School of Law. Constitutional Conventions 1950 Constitutional Convention Proceedings of the Constitutional\u00a0Convention of Hawaii, 1950, Volume 1: Journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":350,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" Board of Elections<\/a><\/p> Legislative Reference Bureau<\/a><\/p> Constitutions of Hawaii<\/a>,\u00a0 University of Hawaii School of Law.<\/p> 1950 Constitutional Convention<\/strong><\/p> Proceedings of the Constitutional\u00a0Convention of Hawaii, 1950, Vol 1<\/a><\/p> Proceedings of the Constitutional\u00a0Convention of Hawaii, 1950, Vol 2<\/a><\/p> 1968 Constitutional Convention*<\/strong><\/p> Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of Hawaii of 1968, Honolulu: State of Hawaii, 1973.\u00a0 Volume 1: Journal and documents<\/a>. Volume 2: Committee of the Whole debates<\/a>. Note: The Volume 1 link is defective at the source.<\/p> 1978 Constitutional Convention*<\/strong><\/p> Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of Hawaii of 1978.\u00a0 Honolulu: State of Hawaii, 1980. Volume 1: Journal and documents<\/a> (1213 pages). Volume 2: Committee of the Whole debates<\/a> (947 pages).<\/p> Fischer, Victor, A New Constitutional Convention For Alaska? The Lessons of Hawaii 1978<\/a>, Prepared for the Interim Committee on the Constitutional Convention of the Alaska State Legislature, March 10, 1980.\u00a0 In the judgment of J.H. Snider, this is the most thorough and best of the scholarly studies that cover Hawaii's 1978 state constitutional convention.<\/p> Kahle, Richard F., and Samuel B. K. Change, editors, Hawaii Constitutional Convention Studies 1978, Hawaii\u00a0Legislative Reference Bureau<\/a>. \u00a0The Hawaii Constitutional Studies 1978 were undertaken at the direction of the legislature and are an attempt to present in understandable form many of the possible issues and the arguments on both sides of such issues that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1978 may wish to consider. The following is only a small subset of the studies; the one on Article XV: Revision and Amendment, may be most relevant.<\/p> *Note: Hawaii State government hasn't made available online either the proceedings of the 1968 or 1978 constitutional conventions. Fortunately, however, they are available via a private online law service.<\/em><\/p> Overviews of Hawaii's Constitutional Convention Tradition.\u00a0<\/strong> The best overview of Hawaii's state constitutional convention history is\u00a0Amy K. Trask's\u00a0History of Revision: The Constitutional Convention Question in Hawai\u2019i, 1950-2008<\/a>, 31 U. Haw. L. Rev. 291 (2008-2009). Her historical narrative, which fills the bulk of her article, is the best part.<\/p> The most widely cited overview of Hawaii's Constitution and constitutional convention history is\u00a0Anne Feder Lee's\u00a0The Hawaii state constitution: a reference guide.\u00a0<\/i>Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. The book is one of many books published by Greenwood Press as part of its state constitution series and follows a cookie cutter format. The series was reprinted by Oxford University Press in the early 2000s.\u00a0 It generally provide an accessible and brief summary of Hawaii's state constitutional convention history--but primarily from a legal rather than a political perspective. Alas, it is both outdated and exceptionally weak in covering the Constitution's Article\u00a0XVII, Revision & Amendment. Most disturbing to this author, its theory of constitutionalism, which under-girds the work in an absent minded sort of way, is controversial without acknowledging competing viewpoints.<\/p> Overviews of Specific Hawaii Constitutional Conventions.\u00a0<\/strong> Hawaii has had two state constitutional conventions since statehood in 1959.\u00a0 My favorite study of the 1978 constitutional convention is Victor Fischer's\u00a0A New Constitutional Convention For Alaska? The Lessons of Hawaii 1978<\/a>, which wasn't a study either prepared for academics or Hawaiians. It was written for Alaskan government officials preparing for an upcoming Alaskan state constitutional convention referendum. The most widely cited academic study of the 1978 constitutional convention is Norman Meller and Richard H. Kosaki's \"Hawaii's constitutional convention\u20131978.\"\u00a0National Civic Review<\/i>\u00a069, no. 5 (1980): 248-271.<\/p> My favorite study of Hawaii's 1968 constitutional convention is Sean A. Kelleher's The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Hawaii, 1968, which<\/em>\u00a0was published as Kelleher's Ph.D. dissertation from Brown University. This is the most detailed study of any of Hawaii's individual constitutional conventions.<\/p> In comparison to some other states, Hawaii has a relatively small scholarly literature on its state constitutional convention tradition. Only several days of work are needed to catch up with the scholarship.<\/p> Barnard, Mary Ann. \"Enabling and implementing legislation and state constitutional convention committee reports.\"\u00a0U. Haw. L. Rev.<\/i>\u00a06 (1984): 523.<\/p> Bartholomew, Paul C., and Robert M. Kamins. \"The Hawaiian Constitution: A Structure for Good Government.\" American Bar Association Journal (1959): 1145-1222.<\/p> Cornwell, Elmer E., Jay S. Goodman, and Wayne R. Swanson.\u00a0State constitutional conventions<\/i>. Praeger, 1975. On the 1968 convention.<\/p> Kelleher, Sean Aloysius. \"The politics of constitutional revision in Hawaii, 1968.\" Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University (1973).<\/p> Kosaki, Richard H. \"Constitutions and constitutional conventions of Hawaii: 1840-1978<\/a>.\" (1978).<\/p> Lee, Anne Feder.\u00a0The Hawaii state constitution: a reference guide<\/i>. No. 14. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. This book was later republished as\u00a0Lee, Anne Feder.\u00a0The Hawaii state constitution<\/i><\/a>. Oxford University Press, 2011.<\/p> Lowrie, S. Gale. \"Hawaii Drafts a Constitution.\"\u00a0U. Cin. L. Rev.<\/i>20 (1951): 215.\u00a0On the 1950 convention\/constitution.<\/p> Kelleher, Sean Aloysius. \"The politics of constitutional revision in Hawaii, 1968.\" Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University (1973).\u00a0Focuses on the 1968 convention but also has a good history of Hawaii's constitutional conventions going back to the early 19th Century.<\/p> Meller, Norman. \"With an understanding heart: constitution making in Hawaii.\" National Municipal League, 1971. Not available online.<\/p> Meller, Norman, and Richard H. Kosaki. \"Hawaii's constitutional convention\u20131978.\"\u00a0National Civic Review<\/i>\u00a069, no. 5 (1980): 248-271.\u00a0\u00a0On the 1978 convention.<\/p> Sigal,\u00a0Benjamin C.,\u00a0 and Joyce M. Najita, editors, Convention Issues: The Changing Constitution.<\/em>\u00a0Labor-Management Education Program, University of Hawaii, Trask, Amy K.,\u00a0History of Revision: The Constitutional Convention Question in Hawai\u2019i, 1950-2008<\/a>, 31 U. Haw. L. Rev. 291 (2008-2009).<\/p> Yip, Elijah,\u00a0When Reason Offends Common Sense<\/a>, Hawaii State Bar Association, July 1998.<\/p><\/div> Elections Results: 1992-2016<\/a>, State of Hawaii, Office of Elections.<\/p> 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention, Wikipedia<\/a><\/p> Strum, Albert L. \"The Procedure of State Constitutional Change-With Special Emphasis on the South and Florida.\"\u00a0Fla. St. UL Rev.<\/i>\u00a05 (1977): 569.<\/a><\/p> Denzau, Arthur T. \"Constitutional change and agenda control.\"\u00a0Public Choice<\/i>\u00a047, no. 1 (1985): 183-217.<\/a><\/p> The last time Congress created a new state<\/a>, Constitution Daily<\/em>, National Constitution Center, March 12, 2018.<\/p> State Case<\/strong><\/p> Haw. State AFL-CIO v. Yoshina, 84 Hawai\u2019i 374, 935 P.2d 89 (1997).<\/p> Federal Case<\/strong><\/p> Bennett v. Yoshina, 140 F.3d 1218, 1221-22 (9th Cir. 1998).<\/p> Other<\/strong><\/p> Kahalekai v. Doi, 60 Haw. 324, 590 P.2d 543 (1979). On misleading ballot language on constitutional amendments proposed in 1978.<\/p>Constitutional Conventions<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Hawaii Constitution<\/strong><\/h4>
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Intro: Biographical essay by J.H. Snider<\/strong><\/h4>
Scholarly Studies<\/strong><\/h4>
Honolulu,\u00a0 April 1968. 180 pp.\u00a0 This book is not available online.\u00a0\u00a0On the 1968 convention.<\/p>Data on the Constitutional Convention Election Call<\/strong><\/h4>
Elections Results, November 4,\u00a02008<\/a>\u00a0(p. 3), State of Hawaii, Office of Elections.<\/pre>
Yes: 152,596 33.5%\r\nNo:\u00a0 281,668 61.9%\r\nBlanks: 20,796 4.6%\r\nOther: 177 0.0%\r\n\r\n<\/pre>
Elections Results, November 3, 1998<\/a>\u00a0(p. 4), State of Hawaii, Office of Elections.<\/pre>
Yes: 140,688 34.1%\r\nNo: 244,753 59.3%\r\nBlanks: 26,784 6.5%\r\nOther: 295 0.1%\r\n\r\nElections Results, November 5, 1996<\/a>\u00a0(p. 5), State of Hawaii, Office of Elections.<\/pre>
Yes: 163,869 44.4%\r\nNo:\u00a0 160,153 43.4%\r\nBlanks: 45,245 12.2%\r\nOther: 90 0.0%\r\n*Note: Ballotpedia only compares yes to no votes, so marks the 1996 election as a yes.\r\n\r\nElection Results, November 2, 1976<\/a>, (p. 25), ICPSR, Hawaii\r\nYes: 199,831 0.0% \r\nNo:\u00a0 69,264 0.0%\r\n\r\nElection Results, November 4, 1986<\/a>, (p. 48), ICPSR, Hawaii\r\nYes: 137,236 0.0% \r\nNo:\u00a0 173,977 0.0%<\/pre>
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The Legal Dispute Over the Constitutional Majority Required to Call a Constitutional Convention<\/strong><\/h4>