Dick Thornburgh papers. Series VI, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1967-1968.

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Dick Thornburgh papers. Series VI, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1967-1968.

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The files are in twelve sections: I. Background reports and articles; II. Campaign for and delegate to the Constitutional Convention; III. Convention opening and procedures; IV. Convention Committees; V. Judiciary Committee working files; VI. Judiciary Committee Subcommittees; VII. Delegate Thornburgh's Files; VIII. Clippings, Editorials and Bulletins; IX. Home Rule; X. Efforts to Implement Judiciary Article; XI. Thornburgh's working copies of manuals, proposals and hearings; XII. Hardcover publications of the Constitutional Convention. They include reports, news releases, delegate lists, convention programs and ephemera, memoranda, correspondence, draft proposals and newspaper clippings.

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Following rather close on the heels of the unsuccessful 1966 campaign for U.S. Congress, yet another Thornburgh campaign got underway. Newly elected Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer made constitutional reform a priority for his administration and voters were asked in the May 1967 primary to call a limited Constitutional Convention. Thornburgh's long standing interest in judicial reform and his then developing concerns about local government tempted him to run in his own Forty-third Distri...