Syfert Injury Law Firm
Your Trusted Partner in Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation
Call Now: 904-383-7448Your Trusted Partner in Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation
Call Now: 904-383-7448The people of this state have the inherent right of regulating their internal government. Government is instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people; and at all times they have the right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it.
- Art. I, Sec. II, Para. II.
- Procedure for amending Constitution of Georgia, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. X, Sec. I.
- For comment on Rogers v. Medical Ass'n, 244 Ga. 151, 259 S.E.2d 85 (1979), invalidating Georgia statute requiring Governor's appointments to Composite State Board of Medical Examiners be made solely from nominees submitted by state medical society as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to a private organization, see 29 Emory L.J. 1183 (1980).
Delegation to private organization of power of appointment to public office is unconstitutional. Rogers v. Medical Ass'n, 244 Ga. 151, 259 S.E.2d 85 (1979).
The Atlanta City Council could not constitutionally delegate its subpoena power, the power to punish by contempt, and the power to require sworn testimony before a court reporter, to a purely private, advisory group, and an attempt by the city council to do so is void. Atlanta Journal v. Hill, 257 Ga. 398, 359 S.E.2d 913 (1987).
Cited in Williams v. Fears, 110 Ga. 585, 35 S.E. 699, 50 L.R.A. 685 (1900); Mayor of Americus v. Perry, 114 Ga. 871, 40 S.E. 1004, 57 L.R.A. 230 (1902); Lambert v. Norton, 119 Ga. 351, 46 S.E. 433 (1904); Green v. City of Atlanta, 162 Ga. 641, 135 S.E. 84 (1926); Mitchell-Huntley Cotton Co. v. Lawson, 377 F. Supp. 661 (M.D. Ga. 1973).
- Amendments to state Constitution can only be submitted to electorate in accordance with the method set forth in the Constitution, which requires that there must be a concurrence in the amendment by two-thirds of each House of the General Assembly. 1962 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 34.
- 16A Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, § 214 et seq.
- Statute relating to municipal fire departments as interference with local self-government, 100 A.L.R. 1078; 141 A.L.R. 903.