Table of Contents

• THE SEEDS OF LIBERTY

• Introduction

• 1625 - Charles I takes throne

• 1628 - Petition of Right issued

• 1629 - Parliament dissolved / Puritans receive Royal charter for a self-governing colony.

• 1635 - Colony of Connecticut settled

• 1639 - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted.

• 1642 - English civil war begins

• 1648 - East Hampton purchased, English civil war ends

• 1650 - First international boundary in America is established on Long Island.

• 1654 - Town of East Hampton established.

• 1660 - Crown restored to King Charles II

• 1664 - Duke of York gets Charter / Stuyvesant cedes New Amsterdam

• 1665 - Meeting at Hempstead, “Duke’s Laws” established

• 1666 - Second Anglo-Dutch War, East Hampton receives Nicolls Patent.

• 1673-74 Dutch reoccupation of New York

• June, 1682 - East Hampton delivers grievance and petition of liberty of a “Generall and free Assembly of our Representatives”

• Sept. 30, 1682 - Dongan appointed Governor

• Jan. 27, 1683 - Instructions issued to Governor Dongan

• Oct. 17, 1683 - New York’s first general assembly convenes

• Feb. 6th, 1685 - Duke of York ascends throne as King James II.

• Aug. 13, 1685 - Dongan proclaims dissolution of assembly.

• Oct. 20, 1685 - Second general assembly begins.

• June 10, 1686 - King James issues new commision to Gov. Dongan

• Dec. 9, 1686 - First meeting of Gov. Dongan with his council under his new commission - East Hampton Town Patent issued.

• April 7, 1688 - New York annexed to New England.

• Dec. 11, 1688 - James II abandons throne

• Feb. 13, 1689 - Crown tendered to William and Mary

• Nov. 14, 1689 - Sloughter appointed Governor of New York

• April 24, 1690 - First Leisler assembly

• Sept. 15, 1690 - Second Leisler assembly

• March 19, 1691 - Sloughter arrives in New York

• April 9, 1691 - A new assembly is had under the authority of William and Mary

• May 13, 1691 - The new Charter of Liberties

• July 4th, 1776 - the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

• 1777 - New York adopts a sovereign constitution of democratic government.

• 1791 - The Federal Union adopts the Bill of Rights

• CHARTER OF LIBERTIES AND PRIVILEGES - 1683

• Preamble

• 1. [Supreme legislative authority.]

• 2. [Governor and council.]

• 3. [Council to act in governor’s absence.]

• 4. [General assembly]

• 5. [Right of suffrage; qualifications of voters.]

• 6. [Representatives, how apportioned]

• 7. [General assembly, how constituted.]

• 8. [Sessions of General Assembly.]

• 9. [Assembly may determine qualifications and election of members.]

• 10. [Immunities of members.]

• 11. [Laws must -be approved by governor and council.]

• 12. [Elections for vacancies in assembly.]

• 13. [Freemen’s rights.]

• 14. [When aids and other burdens not to be levied.]

• 15. [Due process of law.]

• 16. [Amerciaments, to be reasonable.]

• 17- [Trial by jury.]

• 18. [Indictment and trial in criminal cases.]

• 19. [Bail.]

• 20. [Martial law regulated.]

• 21. [Land to be deemed estate of inheritance]

• 22. [Execution against property regulated.]

• 23. [Married woman’s deed.]

• 24. [Conveyance by will.]

• 25. [Dower.]

• 26. [Alienation of lands to be free.]

• 27. [Religious toleration.]

• Declaration of Independence

• Ju1y 4, 1776

• [Preamble]

• [Grievances]

• [Pleading]

• [Declaration]

• THE CONSTITUTION  OF 1777

• [I. Authority]

• [II. Supreme legislative power in Assembly and Senate]

• [III. Council of Revision - Governor, Chancellor & Judges of the Supreme Court.]

• [IV. Apportionment of representatives to Assembly.]

• [V. Provision for census]

• [VI. Elections to be had by ballot]

• [VII. Eligibility to vote.]

• [VIII - Oath may be required to vote.]

• [IX. Assembly to proceed in like manner as assembly of colony.]

• [X. Constitution of, and eligibility requirements for, Senate]

• [XI. Term and rotation of Senate.]

• [XII. Senatorial districts]

• [XIII. Protection from interference with rights and liberties.]

• [XIV. Adjournment by assembly or senate limited.]

• [XV. Senate-Assembly conferences]

• [XVI. Limitation of size of Senate and Assembly]

• [XVII. Power and election of Governor]

• [XVIII. Governor is General and Commander in Chief of Militia and Admiral of Navy.]

• [XIX - Responsibilities of Governor]

• [XX. - Lieutenant-Governor]

• [XXI. Absence of Lieutenant-Governor]

• [XXII. Treasurer to be appointed by the Assembly.]

• [XXIII. - Appointment of Officers]

• {XXIV. Commissioning of Military Officers]

• [XXV. Chancellor and Judges to hold no other office.]

• [XXVI. Sheriffs & Coroners annually appointed.]

• [XXVII. Appointment of Clerks.}

• {XXVIII. Duration of officers not ascertained.]

• [XXIX. Town & County officials to continue.]

• [XXX. Appointment of Delegates to the General Congress of the United States of America.]

• [XXXI. Preamble of all laws to be “by the people of the State of New York.”

• [XXXII. Court for Impeachments and Corrections of Errors.]

• [XXXIII. Power of impeachment vested in Assembly.]

• [XXXIV. Party to be impeached has right to counsel.]

• [XXXV. Laws of England and colonial assembly continued.]

• [XXXVI. Grants and Charters to bodies politic continued.]

• [XXXVII. Puchases or contracts of sale with Indians prohibited.]

• [XXXVIII. Freedom of religion and worship protected.]

• [XXXIX. Ministers and priests barred from public office.]

• [XL. Militia to maintain readiness.]

• [XLI. Right to trial by jury.]

• [XLII. Naturalization]