Peter J. Galie is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Canisius College. Christopher Bopst is Chief Legal and Financial Officer at Sam-Son Logistics. They are the coauthors of The New York State Constitution, Second Edition. Gerald Benjamin is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Benjamin Center at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is coauthor (with Daniel L. Feldman) of Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State, also published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Henrik N. Dullea) of Decision 1997: Constitutional Change in New York.

Preface
Introduction
Peter J. Galie and Gerald Benjamin
I. The Care and Maintenance of the State Constitution
1. Cleaning the Constitution Part I: Institutions and Rights
Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst
2. Cleaning the Constitution Part II: Public Policies
Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst
II. Institutions
3. New York State's Allegedly Unified Court System
Daniel L. Feldman and Marc C. Bloustein
4. These Seats May Not Be Saved: A Fair and Rule-Bound Legislative Reapportionment Process
Jeffrey Wice and Todd A. Breitbart
5. "Mixed Messages:" The Governor's Message of Necessity and the Legislative Process in New York
Peter J. Galie
6. "Mind the Gap": The Promise and Limits of Home Rule in New York
Richard Briffault
III. Policies
7. "Till Debt Do Us Part": The Opportunity for New York Finance Law to Enter the Twenty-First Century
Kenneth Bond
8. "The Gift That Keeps on Giving": New York's Approach to Gifts and Loans of Public Money and Credit
Christopher Bopst
9. "Forever Wild": The Treatment of Conservation and the Environment by the New York State Constitution
Paul Bray
10. Gaming the Constitution: Why New York's Constitutional Gambling Prohibition Does Not Prohibit Gambling
Gerald Benjamin
IV. Constitutional Change
11. "All or Nothing at All": Changing the Constitution¿The Reform Dilemma
Gerald Benjamin
Coda. Should Voters Approve the 2017 Ballot Proposition Calling for a Constitutional Convention?
List of Contributors
Table of Cases
Index