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The law of American state constitutions

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This book provides complete coverage of American State Constitutional Law, contrasting it with the more familiar federal Constitution and explaining the importance of the differences. It surveys the law from before adoption of the federal constitution until the present and studies how it has evolved.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
433

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Cover of: The law of American state constitutions
The law of American state constitutions
2009, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

The other American constitutions
The pre-federal state constitutions : the founding decade
The evolving American state constitutions
Federal limits on state constitutions
The new judicial federalism
Methodology in state constitutional rights interpretation
Lockstepping state constitutional rights with federal constitutional law
State constitutional distribution of powers
The state legislative branch
The state judicial branch
The state executive branch
Interpreting state constitutions
State constitutional revision and amendment
Judicial involvement in state constitutional amendment and revision.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
342.7302
Library of Congress
KF4530 .W538 2009, KF4530.W538 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
433

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23207992M
ISBN 13
9780195343083
LCCN
2009015325
OCLC/WorldCat
318645777
LibraryThing
9245275

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15200048W

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