The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States
Author : Frederic Jesup Stimson
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Frederic Jesup Stimson
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Benjamin Perley Poore
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Benjamin Perley Poore
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Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Constitutional law
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Author : Jennifer Friesen
Publisher : MICHIE
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Actions and defenses
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Author : Robert L. Maddex
Publisher : C Q Press Library Reference
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
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Contains a short sketch of the history of each state and U.S. territory and its constitutional history, followed by a detailed summary of its current constitution. The Introduction includes comparative tables; the Appendix contains the U.S. Constitution.
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Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Political Science
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Author : Francis Newton Thorpe
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Charters
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Publisher : Lawbook Exchange, Limited
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Constitutional history
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The first compilation to collect the constitutions and charters of the United States. Originally published: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 2 vols. xii, 2102 pp. The Government Printing Office edition consisted of five thousand copies, with nine hundred for use of Senators and the Vice President, two thousand five hundred for use of the Representative and Delegates, two copies to the President of the United States, fifty copies to the Department of State, fifty copies for transmission to United States legations and consulates-general abroad, four hundred forty-five to the Library of Congress for exchanges, one copy to the War Department, one copy for the Military Academy at West Point, one copy to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, one hundred copies to the Department of Justice, one copy to the Smithsonian Institution, and one thousand copies for sale to the public, according to Geo. M. Adams, Clerk, House of Representatives, June 6, 1875. "The first compilation that purported to include the constitutions of all states...The index to this work contains citations to specific subjects on which there are provisions in the several state constitutions." -- Lawrence F. Schmeckebier, Government Publications and Their Use (1939) 194 Ben[jamin] Perley Poore [1820-1887] was a popular journalist of his era, and an active Whig. After editing the Boston Bee and Sunday Sentinel, in 1854 Poore became a Washington correspondent to the Boston Journal and a popular participant in influential Washington circles. His colorful pieces using the signature of "Perley" gave him a national reputation. In additional to his newspaper writing, Poore served as clerk of the committee of the United States Senate on printing records, where he edited the Congressional Directory beginning in 1867 and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Author : Emily Zackin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 069115578X
Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.
Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791481980
This third and final volume in a series devoted to state constitutions analyzes how these documents address major constitutional issues such as the protection of rights; voting and elections; constitutional change; the legislature; the executive; the judiciary; taxing, spending, and borrowing; local government; education; and the environment. Contributors identify the strengths and weaknesses of current state constitutions, highlight the major issues confronting the states, and assess various approaches for reform.