Organizational meeting and committee records, 1965-1967.

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Organizational meeting and committee records, 1965-1967.

This series contains the organizational meeting and committee records from 1965 to 1967 of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission. The records document the beginnings of the Commission and the work of the various committees. The series includes correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, and reports.

3.75 cubic ft.105 microfiches.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7340833

Florida State Archive

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Florida Constitution Revision Commission

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The 1968 Constitution contains a continuous revision clause providing for the revision of the Constitution within the first ten years after approval, and a revision every twenty years thereafter (Article XI, Section 2). The Constitution specifies a thirty-seven member commission be selected to prepare revisions. The Constitution Revision Commission was created in 1977 and its proposed revision were rejected by the electorate in November 1978. From the description of Background papers...