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The constitutionalism of American states /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Connor, George E., 1959-, Hammons, Christopher W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
Series:Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy.
Subjects:
Constitutional law > United States > States.
Constitutions > United States > States.
Constitutional history > United States > States.
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.