State Constitutions For The Twenty First Century Volume 2

Author : Frank P. Grad
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482324
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791470015
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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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 2006-04-13 with total page 380 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

Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481980
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 3 written by G. Alan Tarr and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third and final volume in a series devoted to state constitutions analyzes how these documents address major constitutional issues such as the protection of rights; voting and elections; constitutional change; the legislature; the executive; the judiciary; taxing, spending, and borrowing; local government; education; and the environment. Contributors identify the strengths and weaknesses of current state constitutions, highlight the major issues confronting the states, and assess various approaches for reform.

Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791466148
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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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.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Robert F. Williams
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791466131
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Constitutions for the Twenty-first Century, Volume 1 written by Robert F. Williams and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic analysis of the obstacles to state constitutional reform.

Author : Robert Forrest Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195343085
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of American State Constitutions written by Robert Forrest Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Emily Zackin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069115578X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places written by Emily Zackin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.

Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480550
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Neil L. York
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424671
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward A More Perfect Union written by Neil L. York and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-12-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a More Perfect Union is the last of a three-volume series examining the Constitution—as it was drafted and ratified, and the uses made of it over the past two hundred years. Each volume includes essays first presented at conferences on the Bicentennial of the Constitution held at Brigham Young University in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and several additional essays written especially for these anthologies.