Constitutional amendment rules : the denominator problem /

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Author / Creator:Dixon, Rosalind, author.
Imprint:[Chicago, Illinois] : Law School, University of Chicago, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (31 pages) : charts.
Language:English
Series:Public law and legal theory working paper ; no. 346
Public law and legal theory working paper ; no. 346.
Subject:Constitutional amendments -- United States -- States.
Constitutional law -- United States -- States.
Constitutional amendments -- U.S. states.
Constitutional law -- U.S. states.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9039467
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Other authors / contributors:Holden, Richard T., 1974- author.
Notes:"May 2011."
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Summary:"The difficulty of constitutional amendment, in most contexts, clearly depends on both the formal rules governing amendment and a variety of other factors. This chapter explores the significance one such non-textual factor: the size, or scale, of a polity. It, first, identifies a number of theoretical reasons to think that the 'denominator' for constitutional amendment purposes may affect the difficulty of amendment in a jurisdiction; and second, uses an original dataset on constitutional amendments at a state-level in the US, and the size of state legislatures, to show a clear negative relationship between actual amendment denominators and the rate of constitutional amendment, in various US states."