Toward a usable past : liberty under state constitutions / edited by Paul Finkelman and Stephen E. Gottlieb
- Published:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1991]
- Copyright Date:
- ©1991
- Physical Description:
- vii, 448 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Finkelman, Paul, 1949- and Gottlieb, Stephen E.
- Contents:
- Introduction : state constitutions and American liberties / Paul Finkelman and Stephen E. Gottlieb -- Political participation in eighteenth-century America / Donald S. Lutz -- The Rise and decline of "Democratic-Republicanism" : political rights in New York and the several states, 1800-1915 / James A. Henretta -- State politics and republican virtue : religion, education, and morality in early American federalism / Peter S. Onuf -- Rights of conscience and state school systems in nineteenth-century America / Thomas James -- Republican origins of constitutionalism / Morton J. Horwitz -- The Early Virginia tradition of extratextual interpretation / Suzanna Sherry -- Common law antecedents of constitutional law in Connecticut / Ellen A. Peters. and The Uses of state constitutional history : a case note / H. Jefferson Powell -- Before Plessy, before Brown : the development of the law of racial integration in Louisiana and Kansas / J. Morgan Kousser -- State constitutions and criminal justice in the late nineteenth century / Lawrence M. Friedman -- The Search for a usable present / Burt Neuborne -- Just say no : birth control in the Connecticut Supreme Court before Griswold v. Connecticut / Mary L. Dudziak -- Supreme Court jury discrimination cases and state court compliance, resistance, and innovation / Charles J. Ogletree -- State protection of personal liberty : remembering the future / William M. Wiecek -- Mostly anchor and little sail : the evolution of American state constitutions / Kermit L. Hall.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 082031305X (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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