shaping the future of nyc

I. New York City Within the New York State and Federal Governmental Systems

“The unanswered question of American government–‘who is the boss?–constantly plagues administration.”

Norton Long, 1949

The U. S. Constitution:  Art. I, §§ 8 & 10;  Art. IV;  Art. VI;  Amendments X, XI, & XIV

NYP, Preface and chapters 1, 2, & 4-5

PB, Introduction and chapters 10-12 & 15

RM, pp. 64-71

Barron, “Peering Into New York’s Future,” The New York Times, December. 30, 2012, p. 1 [Sunday] Metropolitan section****

 “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory;  and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, New State Ice Co. v. Liebman  (1932)

 “Economy and efficiency are demonstrably not the prime purposes of public administration. . . . Supreme Court  Justice Louis D. Brandeis emphasized that ‘the doctrine of separation of powers was adopted, not to promote efficiency but  to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power.’  The basic issues of organization and administration relate to power:   who shall control it and to what ends?

Harold Seidman and Robert Gilmour, 1986