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The slow evolution of the "constitution state" / Elizabeth Beaumont --
The Maine Constitution : a tradition of consensus / Kenneth T. Palmer and Jonathan Thomas --
The Massachusetts Constitution : liberty and equality in the commonwealth / Kenneth L. Manning --
New Hampshire and the constitutional movement / B. Thomas Schuman --
Constitutionalism in Rhode Island : continuity of colonial design / Elmer Cornwell --
The green mountain boys constitute Vermont / Celise Schneider --
Pioneer and outlier : Maryland constitutionalism in its third century / Thomas F. Schaller --
Constitutionalism in New Jersey : constitutional failures in a changing political environment / Melissa Scheier --
The New York Constitution : emerging principles in American constitutional thought / Howard L. Lubert --
Pennsylvania : virtue, liberty, and independence / Jeffrey P. Bauman --
Festina lente : the development of constitutionalism in Delaware / Carol E. Hoffecker and Barbara E. Benson --
Constitutionalism in Kentucky : adapting an archaic charter / Penny M. Miller and Amanda L. Cooper --
Missouri constitutionalism : meandering toward progress, 1820-2004 / Ronald Brecke and Greg Plumb --
The West Virginia Constitution : securing the popular interest / Robert E. DiClerico --
Political geography and power elites : big mules and the Alabama Constitution / Anne Permaloff and Carl Grafton --
Change and continuity in Arkansas politics after the 1874 Arkansas State Constitutional Convention / Franklyn C. Niles --
Florida : defining and redefining citizen and community / Rebecca Mae Salokar --
Georgia : tectonic plates shifting / Melvin B. Hill, Jr. and LaVerne Williamson Hill --
The Louisiana experience : culture, clashes, and codification / Amy Gossett --
Custom, culture, and change : the Mississippi constitutional experience / Angela K. Lewis --
North Carolina : fundamental principles / John V. Orth --
South Carolina : defining power, defining people / Kevin Hill --
The Tennessee Constitution : an unlikely path toward conservatism / Lewis L. Laska --
The Texas Constitution : formal and informal / James E. Anderson --
The development of the Virginia Constitution / John J. Dinan --
Understatement and the development of Illinois constitutionalism / Jeremy Walling --
Justice, order, and liberty : responsible citizenship in Indiana / Jordon B. Barkalow --
Michigan : four constitutions, four new beginnings / David Houghton --
The Ohio Constitution : normatively and empirically distinctive / James L. Walker --
Wisconsin : rejection, ratification, and the evolution of a people / John Zumbrunnen --
The Iowa Constitution : rights over mechanics / Donald P. Racheter --
The Kansas constitution : conservative politics through republican dominance / Francis H. Heller and Paul D. Schumaker --
Framing government for a frontier commonwealth : the Minnesota Constitution(s) / Barbara Allen --
A self-righteous and self-sufficient method for governing : how the Nebraska Constitution preserves a way of life / Christopher W. Larimer --
North Dakota : a constitution implements popular democracy / Theodore B. Pedeliski --
Oklahoma's statutory constitution / Ronald M. Peters, Jr. and Michael K. Avery --
South Dakota's constitution : harkening backward, foreshadowing a future / Michael Mullin and Jon Lauck --
Two sides of Colorado, amplified through constitutional redesign / Vicky Bollenbacher --
The constitutional Idahoan / Dennis C. Colson --
Montana : community denied, constitutionalism delayed / George E. Connor --
The Nevada state constitution : from polygamy to prostitution / Roberta Q. Herzberg --
Utah's constitution : distinctly undistinctive / Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Christine M. Durham, and Kathy Wyer --
Wyoming : the equality state / Brian A. Ellison --
The Alaska Constitution : promoting statehood, providing stability / Sally H. Campbell --
Arizona's constitution : the Madisonian hope of a western progressive state / Hans L. Eicholz --
The 1849 California Constitution : an extraordinary achievement by dedicated, ordinary people / Gordon Lloyd --
Hawaii : centralization in a multi-island state / Anne Feder Lee --
New Mexico's constitution : promoting pluralism in la tierra encantada / John Bretting and F. Chris Garcia --
Oregon's constitution : a political richter scale / Howard Leichter --
Washington : the past and present populist state / Hugh D. Spitzer. |
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