The constitutionalism of American states /
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Imprint: | Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008. |
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Description: | xxix, 816 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Eric Voegelin series in political philosophy Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy. |
Subject: | Constitutional law -- United States -- States. Constitutions -- United States -- States. Constitutional history -- United States -- States. Constitutional history -- U.S. states. Constitutional law -- U.S. states. Constitutions -- U.S. states. United States. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7127039 |
Table of Contents:
- The slow evolution of the "constitution state" / Elizabeth Beaumont
- The Maine Constitution : a tradition of consensus / Kenneth T. Palmer and Jonathan Thomas
- The Massachusetts Constitution : liberty and equality in the commonwealth / Kenneth L. Manning
- New Hampshire and the constitutional movement / B. Thomas Schuman
- Constitutionalism in Rhode Island : continuity of colonial design / Elmer Cornwell
- The green mountain boys constitute Vermont / Celise Schneider
- Pioneer and outlier : Maryland constitutionalism in its third century / Thomas F. Schaller
- Constitutionalism in New Jersey : constitutional failures in a changing political environment / Melissa Scheier
- The New York Constitution : emerging principles in American constitutional thought / Howard L. Lubert
- Pennsylvania : virtue, liberty, and independence / Jeffrey P. Bauman
- Festina lente : the development of constitutionalism in Delaware / Carol E. Hoffecker and Barbara E. Benson
- Constitutionalism in Kentucky : adapting an archaic charter / Penny M. Miller and Amanda L. Cooper
- Missouri constitutionalism : meandering toward progress, 1820-2004 / Ronald Brecke and Greg Plumb
- The West Virginia Constitution : securing the popular interest / Robert E. DiClerico
- Political geography and power elites : big mules and the Alabama Constitution / Anne Permaloff and Carl Grafton
- Change and continuity in Arkansas politics after the 1874 Arkansas State Constitutional Convention / Franklyn C. Niles
- Florida : defining and redefining citizen and community / Rebecca Mae Salokar
- Georgia : tectonic plates shifting / Melvin B. Hill, Jr. and LaVerne Williamson Hill
- The Louisiana experience : culture, clashes, and codification / Amy Gossett
- Custom, culture, and change : the Mississippi constitutional experience / Angela K. Lewis
- North Carolina : fundamental principles / John V. Orth
- South Carolina : defining power, defining people / Kevin Hill
- The Tennessee Constitution : an unlikely path toward conservatism / Lewis L. Laska
- The Texas Constitution : formal and informal / James E. Anderson
- The development of the Virginia Constitution / John J. Dinan
- Understatement and the development of Illinois constitutionalism / Jeremy Walling
- Justice, order, and liberty : responsible citizenship in Indiana / Jordon B. Barkalow
- Michigan : four constitutions, four new beginnings / David Houghton
- The Ohio Constitution : normatively and empirically distinctive / James L. Walker
- Wisconsin : rejection, ratification, and the evolution of a people / John Zumbrunnen
- The Iowa Constitution : rights over mechanics / Donald P. Racheter
- The Kansas constitution : conservative politics through republican dominance / Francis H. Heller and Paul D. Schumaker
- Framing government for a frontier commonwealth : the Minnesota Constitution(s) / Barbara Allen
- A self-righteous and self-sufficient method for governing : how the Nebraska Constitution preserves a way of life / Christopher W. Larimer
- North Dakota : a constitution implements popular democracy / Theodore B. Pedeliski
- Oklahoma's statutory constitution / Ronald M. Peters, Jr. and Michael K. Avery
- South Dakota's constitution : harkening backward, foreshadowing a future / Michael Mullin and Jon Lauck
- Two sides of Colorado, amplified through constitutional redesign / Vicky Bollenbacher
- The constitutional Idahoan / Dennis C. Colson
- Montana : community denied, constitutionalism delayed / George E. Connor
- The Nevada state constitution : from polygamy to prostitution / Roberta Q. Herzberg
- Utah's constitution : distinctly undistinctive / Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Christine M. Durham, and Kathy Wyer
- Wyoming : the equality state / Brian A. Ellison
- The Alaska Constitution : promoting statehood, providing stability / Sally H. Campbell
- Arizona's constitution : the Madisonian hope of a western progressive state / Hans L. Eicholz
- The 1849 California Constitution : an extraordinary achievement by dedicated, ordinary people / Gordon Lloyd
- Hawaii : centralization in a multi-island state / Anne Feder Lee
- New Mexico's constitution : promoting pluralism in la tierra encantada / John Bretting and F. Chris Garcia
- Oregon's constitution : a political richter scale / Howard Leichter
- Washington : the past and present populist state / Hugh D. Spitzer.