REVISION AND AMENDMENT OF STATE CONSTITUTIONS.Dodd, Walter FairleighItem #: 12018 Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; 1999. Series: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. EXTRA VOLUMES, NEW SERIES Subjects: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, POLITICAL SCIENCE, STATE LAW Discusses the practice and methods of the amendment andrevision of state constitutions and the legal principles(rather than theories) which precede such alterations. Anexamination of the first state constitutions from 1776-1783provides a historical context, but much of the work analyzesthe relevant legal principles affecting changes to stateconstitutions based on a study of judicial decisionspertinent to such areas as the development of thedistinction between constitutions and statutes, and thedistinction between the constitutional convention and theregular legislature in states.Reprinted by the Law Book Exchange, Ltd.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Please contact us to request purchasing information. |