Book Description
A comprehensive overview of how Michigan's government and political institutions function
Author : John S Klemanski
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472037005
A comprehensive overview of how Michigan's government and political institutions function
Author : Kelly Stephen Searl
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Court rules
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Author : Eugene G. Wanger
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1628952865
Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution—Eugene G. Wanger’s compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist. His extraordinary background in forensics, law, and political activity as constitutional convention delegate and co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has produced a remarkable collection. It is not only a fifty-year history of the anti–death penalty argument in America, it also is a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.
Author : Thomas McIntyre Cooley
Publisher :
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Constitutional law
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Author : Michigan
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
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Author : Jeremy C Pope
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472132229
The fundamental importance of the 1787 Constitutional Convention continues to affect contemporary politics. The Constitution defines the structure and limits of the American system of government, and it organizes contemporary debates about policy and legal issues—debates that explicitly invoke the intentions and actions of those delegates to the Convention. Virtually all scholarship emphasizes the importance of compromise between key actors or factions at the Convention. In truth, the deep structure of voting at the Convention remains somewhat murky because the traditional stories are incomplete. There were three key factions at the Convention, not two. The alliance of the core reformers with the slave interests helped change representation and make a stronger national government. When it came time to create a strong executive, a group of small state delegates provided the crucial votes. Traditional accounts gloss over the complicated coalition politics that produced these important compromises, while this book shows the specific voting alignments. It is true that the delegates came with common purposes, but they were divided by both interests and ideas into three crosscutting factions. There was no persistent dominant coalition of reformers or nationalists; rather, there was a series of minority factions allying with one another on the major issues to fashion the compromise. Founding Factions helps us understand the nature of shifting majorities and how they created the American government.
Author : Michigan
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Constitutions
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Author : Sidney Fine
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814328750
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped. Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962), and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other politicians and policymakers. Students of state history, civil rights history, and those interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation during the years the book covers.
Author : Alex J. Schmidt
Publisher : A J S Publications
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 9780931298004
Author : Michigan
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Election law
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