Traditionally, research of constitutional law scholars in the US mainly focuses on the federal Constitution, thereby often neglecting the rich source of constitutional tradition on the state level. Nevertheless, states may serve as laboratories, yielding useful insights in the successes and failures of their experiments. It is the aim of this essay to fi ll a gap in the literature by thoroughly analysing the constitutional amendment procedures in all 50 state constitutions
The American Constitution is exceptionally stable. Americans have proposed and ratified only one nat...
This work brings constitutional studies and social movement studies together in an empirical and the...
In a series of groundbreaking articles published over the past fifteen years, James Gardner has led ...
Although the federal constitutional amendment procedure in Article V of the U.S. Constitution has no...
The current rediscovery of state constitutions has had a singular and curious feature: it has been f...
The phrase laboratories of democracy, as applied to the states, seems most often to mean something...
This research examines the role of direct democracy in a federal system of government and why states...
The relationship between democracy and constitutions is a long and fractitious one. Those who lean t...
The American traditions of constitutional amendment raise contrasts and continuities with constituti...
The United States of America, as a federation of now 50 states each with its own constitution and le...
The article aims to analyze the fundamentals and the methods of state constitutional changes in the ...
When we think about administrative law, we tend to dwell on issues related to federal agencies and t...
Unlike the United States Constitution, which has been amended only twentyseven times since its adopt...
This Article describes how reformers, who were often blocked by Congress, were able to achieve their...
State constitutions are worth the attention. They are, and have always been, different from the Uni...
The American Constitution is exceptionally stable. Americans have proposed and ratified only one nat...
This work brings constitutional studies and social movement studies together in an empirical and the...
In a series of groundbreaking articles published over the past fifteen years, James Gardner has led ...
Although the federal constitutional amendment procedure in Article V of the U.S. Constitution has no...
The current rediscovery of state constitutions has had a singular and curious feature: it has been f...
The phrase laboratories of democracy, as applied to the states, seems most often to mean something...
This research examines the role of direct democracy in a federal system of government and why states...
The relationship between democracy and constitutions is a long and fractitious one. Those who lean t...
The American traditions of constitutional amendment raise contrasts and continuities with constituti...
The United States of America, as a federation of now 50 states each with its own constitution and le...
The article aims to analyze the fundamentals and the methods of state constitutional changes in the ...
When we think about administrative law, we tend to dwell on issues related to federal agencies and t...
Unlike the United States Constitution, which has been amended only twentyseven times since its adopt...
This Article describes how reformers, who were often blocked by Congress, were able to achieve their...
State constitutions are worth the attention. They are, and have always been, different from the Uni...
The American Constitution is exceptionally stable. Americans have proposed and ratified only one nat...
This work brings constitutional studies and social movement studies together in an empirical and the...
In a series of groundbreaking articles published over the past fifteen years, James Gardner has led ...