96 Okla. Crim. 38 - State v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"The provision of the Constitution relied upon was intended to prevent the mischief which arose by the enactment of amendatory statutes so blind in terms that the legislators themselves were sometimes deceived in regard to their effect, and the public, from the difficulty in making the necessary examination and comparison, failed to become apprised of the changes made in the laws by the enactment of such legislation. A familiar illustration was the passage of an act amending a prior act which purported only to insert certain words, or to substitute a phrase of another by referring thereto without re-enacting the section affected. Such constitutional provisions have always received a liberal construction with the view of preventing the evil at which they were aimed, but when the statute in itself appears to be original, and in itself intelligible and complete, and does not either in its title or in the body thereof appear to be revisory or amendatory of any law, it is not within the inhibition of section 57, art. 5, even though such act seeks to effectuate the power conferred by referring to, and requiring, the officers thereby created to proceed in the performance of their duties in accordance with the general laws previously enacted. City of Pond Creek v. Haskell, 21 Okl. 711 , 97 P. 338 ; No. 9182, In re Application of John W. Lee, [ 64 Okl. 310 ], 168 P. 53 ; 1 Lewis' Sutherland, Stat.Const. § 243." (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State