Constitution, the people were to vote on the holding of a seventh Constitutional Convention in 1916. However, the Governor proposed that the Convention be moved up to 1915 so that it would not be overshadowed by other issues. Thus, in April 1914, a referendum approved a Constitutional Convention to be held in 1915. There were 168 delegates to the 1915 Convention. The delegates included: Elihu Root (the President of the Convention), Edgar T. Brackett, Jacob Brenner, Patrick W. Cullinan, Seth Low, Louis Marshall, John Lord O'Brian, Herbert Parsons, Jacob Gould Schurman, Henry L. Stimson, George W. Wickersham, Franklin A. Coles, Harry E. Lewis, Meier Steinbrink, Harry Heyman, John F. Ahearn, Abraham Harawitz, Alfred E. Smith, Harry E. Oxford, Morgan J. O'Brien, John B. Stanchfield, James A. Foley, De Lancey Nicoll, William F. Sheehan, Thomas Francis Smith, Thomas Maurice Mulry, John Thomas Dooling, John Godfrey Saxe II, Robert F. Wagner, Courtlandt Nicoll, Frederick C. Tanner, Mark Eisner, William M. K. Olcott, Martin Saxe, J. Sidney Bernstein, Nathan Burkan, Anthony J. Griffin, Louis F. Haffen, Francis W. Martin, George A. Blauvelt, Eugene Lamb Richards, Francis A. Winslow, Frank L. Young, Caleb H. Baumes, Lemuel E. Quigg, William Barnes Jr., Harold J. Hinman, Victor M. Allen, Louis M. Martin, Ray B. Smith, Israel T. Deyo, George E. Green, Jesse S. Phillips, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Frank M. Jones, Benjamin Rush Rhees, Homer E. A. Dick, Charles B. Sears, Matthias Endres, and James S. Whipple. Proposed changes included: A reorganization of state government leaving it with 17 departments, reducing the number of elected officials, and providing for the appointment of others Removing from the State Legislature the power to review local matters and private claims Budgetary regulation Improvements in the ways the State could become indebted Home rule for cities Giving the State Legislature the authority, with voters' consent, to alter county government Simplification of the court system State control over tax assessment Establishing a conservation commission to oversee natural resources Expanded rights for workers All of the proposals from the seventh Constitutional Convention of 1915 were grouped into five questions, all of which were rejected by the people. However, all was not lost. In 1925, a revised Article 5, containing many proposals from the Fifth Convention of 1915, was submitted to the people/voters and accepted in a referendum/election. In 1927, the budget proposal from the Fifth Convention was also accepted. 1921 Judiciary Convention Originally,