COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS
Tuesday, July 29, 1947
(Afternoon session)
(The session began at 2:15 P. M.)
PRESENT: Barus, Eggers, Feller, Miller, S., Jr., Smith, J. S., Van Alstyne, Walton and Young.
Chairman David Van Alstyne, Jr., presided.
CHAIRMAN DAVID VAN ALSTYNE, JR.: The meeting will come to order. Will the members of the Executive Committee please move forward and take their seats? The first person we would like to hear is Dr. Thomas H. Reed, who is in a hurry to get away, and I’m going to ask Mr. Miller to introduce him. Mr. Miller.
MR. SPENCER MILLER, JR.: Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee:
The New Jersey Committee on Constitutional Revision which, as you recall, is composed of 12 constitutent state-wide organizations, has sought from the first to facilitate the work of the several Committees of this Convention. In connection with the preparation of the final draft of the work of this Committee and the Legislative Committee, the Committee on Constitutional Revision has invited Dr. Thomas H. Reed, one of the outstanding students of government in this country, to come here to serve as an expert witness in connection with the drafting of this report.
May I say that Dr. Reed has had a unique and varied experience both in the theory and in the practice of government. He began as the secretary to Hiram Johnson, the Governor of California, and became, shortly thereafter, a member of the faculty of the University of California, where he served for some dozen years and made a distinguished record for himself in the Department of Political Science. It was during that time that he was conducting courses at the university in the field of state legislation. He was called from the post of Professor of Political Science of the University of California to the post of the Department of Government at the University of Michigan, where for another period of about a dozen years he served with distinction as a member of that great university of the Middle West. Thereafter, Dr. Reed worked on a series of books, textbooks particularly, in the field of municipal government
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