Additional Records & Resources

This page contains a curated list of resources on the history of the New York Constitution. To the extent possible, links are to publicly accessible copies of the sources listed. Where that is not possible, the link directs to an online database.

Convention Records

New York State Constitutional Convention Records Collection, New York State Library

Books

Gerald Benjamin, The New York State Constitution: A Briefing Book (1994)

Peter Galie & Christopher Bopst, The New York State Constitution (2012)

Peter Galie, Ordered Liberty: A Constitutional History of New York (1996)

Charles Z. Lincoln, The Constitutional History of New York from the Beginning of the Colonial Period to the Year 1905 (1906) (Volume I | Volume II | Volume III | Volume IV | Volume V)

New York Bureau of Municipal Research & New York State Department of Efficiency, The Constitution and Government of the State of New York (2025)

Articles

Robert A. Emery, A Brief Research Guide to the New York State Constitution, 8 Legal Reference Services Q. 189 (1988)

New York Public Interest Research Group, Convention-Land: New Yorkers’ Road Map to the Constitutional Convention (2017)

Albert M. Rosenblatt, The New York Constitution: Its First Was a Reaction to British Rule, State Court Report (2025)

Symposium: New York State Constitutional Law: Trends and Developments: Introduction, 14 Touro L. Rev. (1998)