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The Law of American State Constitutions 2nd Edition

The Law of American State Constitutions 2nd Edition

Author: Robert F. Williams; Lawrence Friedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190068806
Published In: June 2023
Format: Hardback
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The second edition of The Law of American State Constitutions provides complete coverage of the legal doctrines surrounding, applying to, and arising from American state constitutions and their judicial interpretation. Drawing on examples from specific states, Professors Williams and Friedman analyze the nature and function of state constitutions in contrast to the federal Constitution, including rights, separation of powers, issues of interpretation, and the processes for amendment and revision. In this edition, Williams and Friedman focus on recent developments, including the state constitutional dimensions of same-sex marriage and the reaction of state courts to U.S. Supreme Court decision making.

This edition of The Law of American State Constitutions remains an important analytical tool that explains the unique character and the range of interpretive approaches to these constitutions. It covers the structure of state governments under state constitutions as well as the distribution of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Like the first edition, this edition presents a complete picture of state constitutional law and the attributes and features that make this body of law so distinctive.

Introduction

I - State Constitutions in American Constitutional Federalism

Chapter 1. The Other American Constitutions

Chapter 2. The Pre-Federal “State” Constitutions: The Founding Decade

Chapter 3. The Evolving American State Constitutions

Chapter 4. Federal Limits on State Constitutions

II - Rights Guarantees under State Constitutions: The New Judicial Federalism

Chapter 5. The New Judicial Federalism

Chapter 6. Methodology in State Constitutional Rights Interpretation

Chapter 7. Lockstepping State Constitutional Rights with Federal Constitutional Law

III - Structure of State Government

Chapter 8. State Constitutional Distribution of Powers