Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty first Century Volume 2 written by Frank P. Grad and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional reform requires not only good ideas but also the ability to translate those ideas into language that will effectuate the drafters' aims. This book—the second of three volumes on state constitutions—is the essential guide for those involved in constitutional reform. It identifies the recurrent problems that reformers face in drafting or amending state constitutions and explores how those problems might be addressed. It also explains why drafting state constitutions is a distinctive enterprise, different from the drafting of other legal documents.
Download or read book Methods of State Constitutional Reform written by Albert Lee Sturm and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Methods of Constitutional Reform written by George Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Methods of Changing the Constitutions of the States written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty first Century Volumes 1 2 3 written by G. Alan Tarr and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 1 The Politics of State Constitutional Reform State Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 2 Drafting State Constitutions, Revisions, and Amendments State Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 3 The Agenda of State Constitutional Reform
Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty first Century Volume 1 written by G. Alan Tarr and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic analysis of the obstacles to state constitutional reform.
Download or read book Methods of State Constitutional Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amendment of State Constitutions written by James Wilford Garner and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American State Constitutional Tradition written by John J. Dinan and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.S. Constitution drafted in 1787. Yet constitutional debates at the state level open a window on how Americans, in different places and at different times, have chosen to govern themselves. From New Hampshire in 1776 to Louisiana in 1992, state constitutional conventions have served not only as instruments of democracy but also as forums for revising federal principles and institutions. In The American State Constitutional Tradition, John Dinan shows that state constitutions are much more than mere echoes of the federal document. The first comprehensive study of all 114 state constitutional conventions for which there are recorded debates, his book shows that state constitutional debates in many ways better reflect the accumulated wisdom of American constitution-makers than do the more traditional studies of the federal constitution. Wielding extraordinary command over a mass of historical detail, Dinan clarifies the alternatives considered by state constitution makers and the reasons for the adoption or rejection of various governing principles and institutions. Among other things, he shows that the states are nearly universal in their rejection of the rigid federal model of the constitutional amendment process, favoring more flexible procedures for constitutional change; they often grant citizens greater direct participation in law-making; they have debated and at times rejected the value of bicameralism; and they have altered the veto powers of both the executive and judicial branches. Dinan also shows that, while the Founders favored a minimalist design and focused exclusively on protecting individuals from government action, state constitution makers have often adopted more detailed constitutions, sometimes specifying positive rights that depend on government action for their enforcement. Moreover, unlike the federal constitution, state constitutions often contain provisions dedicated to the formation of citizen character, ranging from compulsory schooling to the regulation of gambling or liquor. By integrating state constitution making with the federal constitutional tradition, this path-breaking work widens and deepens our understanding of the principles by which we've chosen to govern ourselves.
Download or read book The Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions written by Walter Fairleigh Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden Laws written by Robinson Woodward-Burns and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How state constitutional reform guides and stabilizes American constitutional and political development State constitution reform guides and stabilizes American constitutional and political development. Using data sets and historical case studies, Robinson Woodward-Burns shows how the federal government has repeatedly deferred to state constitutional reform to manage or address difficult national constitutional controversies, including conflicts over the regulation of slavery, banking and taxation, women's suffrage, labor and welfare rights, voting and civil rights, and gender discrimination.
Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty first Century Volume 3 written by G. Alan Tarr and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationally recognized experts analyze how states deal with major constitutional issues.
Download or read book Responding to Imperfection written by Sanford Levinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. The relative ease or difficulty of amendment has significant implications for the ways that governments respond to problems that call either for new structures of governance or new powers for already established structures. This book brings together essays by leading legal authorities and political scientists on a range of questions from whether the U.S. Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how significant change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Though the essays are concerned for the most part with the American experience, other constitutional traditions are considered as well. The contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Mark E. Brandon, David R. Dow, Stephen M. Griffin, Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, Sanford Levinson, Donald Lutz, Walter Murphy, Frederick Schauer, John R. Vile, and Noam J. Zohar.
Download or read book 51 Imperfect Solutions written by Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitutional law is not made at the federal level. In 51 Imperfect Solutions, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state courts and state constitutions, together with the federal courts and the federal constitution, in protecting individual liberties. The book tells four stories that arise in four different areas of constitutional law: equal protection; criminal procedure; privacy; and free speech and free exercise of religion. Traditional accounts of these bedrock debates about the relationship of the individual to the state focus on decisions of the United States Supreme Court. But these explanations tell just part of the story. The book corrects this omission by looking at each issue-and some others as well-through the lens of many constitutions, not one constitution; of many courts, not one court; and of all American judges, not federal or state judges. Taken together, the stories reveal a remarkably complex, nuanced, ever-changing federalist system, one that ought to make lawyers and litigants pause before reflexively assuming that the United States Supreme Court alone has all of the answers to the most vexing constitutional questions. If there is a central conviction of the book, it's that an underappreciation of state constitutional law has hurt state and federal law and has undermined the appropriate balance between state and federal courts in protecting individual liberty. In trying to correct this imbalance, the book also offers several ideas for reform.
Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty first Century Volume 3 written by G. Alan Tarr and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationally recognized experts analyze how states deal with major constitutional issues.
Download or read book State Constitutional Conventions written by Elmer E. Cornwell and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
