Constitutional amendment rules : the denominator problem /
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Author / Creator: | Dixon, Rosalind, author. |
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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. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9039467 |
Other authors / contributors: | Holden, Richard T., 1974- author. |
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Notes: | "May 2011." Includes bibliographical references. Title from online title page (viewed March 22, 2013). |
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." |
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