The law of American state constitutions
By: Robert Williams.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780195343083
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- States; Constitutions -- United States -- States
Description: This book provides complete coverage of American State Constitutional Law, contrasting it with the more familiar federal Constitution and explaining the importance of the differences. It surveys the law from before adoption of the federal constitution until the present and studies how it has evolved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The other American constitutions; title: The pre-federal state constitutions : the founding decade; title: The evolving American state constitutions; title: Federal limits on state constitutions; title: The new judicial federalism; title: Methodology in state constitutional rights interpretation; title: Lockstepping state constitutional rights with federal constitutional law; title: State constitutional distribution of powers; title: The state legislative branch; title: The state judicial branch; title: The state executive branch; title: Interpreting state constitutions; title: State constitutional revision and amendment; title: Judicial involvement in state constitutional amendment and revision.