Paul Mason (4)

Contains both the straight and an Annotated copy, XXVI Articles (No XXV has been adopted). With Amendments.

Provisions of other States corresponding to Provisions of the California Constitution.

Constitution of California 1849

Treaty with Mexico

Declaration of Independence (U.S. 1776)

Articles of Confederation (U.S. 1777)

Constitution of the United States

Index to Constitution of the United States

Cases cited in Notes to Constitution of 1879

Other Authorities Cited

Attorney General's Opinions

Attorney General's Letters

Index

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The theory of separation of powers - based on misconception:

"The separation of powers was believed by Montesquieu (Espirit de Lois, Book 2, Ch. 6) by Blackstone (1 Commentaries 269) and American Constitution makers of the eighteenth century (Federalist No. 47 by Madison) to be one of the chief and most admirable characteristics of the English Constitution, while in fact, no such separation of the legislative and executive functions existed under the English Constitution (Bagehot English Constitution, Ch. 8) and it was in the written Constitutiions of the new American States that it was first practically applied. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 26 L.Ed. 377, 12 Corpus Juris 802." [404]

New Trial/ Set Aside Jt only when Miscarriage of Justice. Art. VI, Sec 4 1/2. Numerous Annotations - none of which justify the decision of Justice Gardiner to set aside the 11/1 jury verdict in Solanki vs Dajee (2000).

"No judgment shall be set aside, or new trial granted, in any case, on the ground of misdirection of the jury, or of the improperadmission or rejection of evidence, or for any error as to any matter of pleading, or for any error as to any matter of procedure, unless, after an examination of the entire cause, including the evidence, the court shall be of the opinion that the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice."… (plus d'informations)