Title

COURTS

Proposition Summary

Assembly constitutional amendment 61. Amends Section 1, Article VI of Constitution. Omits from enumeration of courts, in which judicial power is by that section declared vested, “district courts of appeal, superior courts and such inferior courts as the legislature may establish in any incorporated city or town, township, county or city and county” and substitutes therefor “such other courts as the legislature by general law (subject to referendum) may establish.” Declares remaining provision of same article, except section nineteen relating to charging juries, shall have same effect as general laws and legislature may repeal or amend same.

Proposition Number

6

Year

1918

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 86132; A: 23.9; N: 274231; B: 76.1

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

For Author

A. W. Carlson, Assemblyman Fiftieth District; Henry W. Wright, Assemblyman Sixty-ninth District

Against Author

Jeremiah F. Sullivan, President San Francisco Bar Association

Download

Share

COinS