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State Constitutional Law is designed to provide the basis for a lively and exciting two or three credit course in an area of law that has become increasingly important to a variety of law practices. Now, more than ever, lawyers, judges and law professors are discovering the importance of state constitutions and the judicial interpretations of these constitutions. A major focus of the book is the substantial differences between detailed the state constitutions and the more-familiar brief federal constitution that was the focus of the students' Constitutional Law course. The Fifth edition of State Constitutional Law follows the basic structure and philosophy of earlier editions. The text explores the many common themes that appear in the body of constitutional law of all states, but also focuses on the importance of the unique history, language and judicial understanding of each state's constitution in resolving particular issues, including the political context in which state constitutions have evolved; the popular participation in the processes of state constitutional change; the individual rights provisions that have no federal parallel; the wide range of policy matters that ar

Author
Robert Forrest Williams
Publisher
LexisNexis Matthew Bender; LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9780820570037
Subjects
Law
Rating
3.6 / 5 (3 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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