LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU. GOVERNOR FRANK O. LOWDEN, Chairman. SENATOR EDWARD C. CURTIS, Grant Park. SENATOR RICHARD J. BARR, Joliet. REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD J. SMEJKAL, Chicago. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM P. HOLADAY, Danville. E. J. VERLIE, Secretary. W. F. DODD, in charge collection of data for constitutional convention. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Religious liberty and aid to sectarian institutions.......1196 I. SUMMARY. This bulletin will seek to deal with certain subjects that have not been dealt with in other bulletins issued for the use of the constitutional convention. It will confine itself primarily to problems raised by the bill of rights and to related problems involved in other parts of the constitution. In connection with certain suffrage provisions of the bill of rights, there will be a brief discussion also of Art. VII of the constitution. In connection with the subject of religious liberty there will be some discussion of Art. VIII dealing with education; and in connection with guarantees regarding military matters, there will be a brief discussion of Art. XII of the constitution. The preamble, the article on boundaries, the article on separation of powers and the schedule require little comment beyond what will be found in the Annotated Constitution. A number of important matters with respect to the bill of rights. have been dealt with in other bulletins of this series. The subjects of jury trial and of the grand jury will be found fully discussed in Bulletin No. 10, dealing with the judicial department. Problems as to the extension of the power of eminent domain and excess condemnation are considered in Bulletin No. 7. The problem of injunctions in labor cases is fully discussed in Bulletin No. 14, devoted to economic and industrial problems, and further reference to this subject is unnecessary in this bulletin. The question as to the extent to which social and industrial legislation has been prevented by interpretation of the present constitution is to some extent covered in the bulletin dealing. with the judicial department (Bulletin No. 10), where a chapter will be found upon the power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional; and in Bulletin No. 8, on the legislative department, where a chapter will be found on legislative powers. With respect to certain matters upon which the constitutionality of legislation may be doubtful without a change in the present constitutional text, a discussion will be found in Bulletin No. 14, dealing with social and industrial problems. |