American State Constitutions and Minority Rights

Federalism, Subnational Constitutions, and Minority Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 89-103

  Alan Tarr, G ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for State Constitutional Studies   (United States)

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References (21)

1. For overviews, see Ellis Katz and G. Alan Tarr, eds., Federalism and Rights (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996)
2. David L. Shapiro, Federalism: A Dialogue (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1995).
3. For an overview of racial exclusion from the franchise, see Eric Foner, “From Slavery to Citizenship: Blacks and the Right to Vote” in Donald W. Rogers, ed., Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
4. The Southern disenfranchisement of African-Americans after Reconstruction is chronicled in J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restrictions and the Establishment of the One-Party South 1890-1910 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974).
5. See G. Alan Tarr, Understanding State Constitutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), chapter 3;
6. Donald S. Lutz, Popular Consent and Popular Control: Whig Political Theory in the Early State Constitutions (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980);
7. Willi Paul Adams, The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980);
8. Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (New York: Norton, 1969).
9. See G. Alan Tarr and Mary Cornelia Porter, State Supreme Courts in State and Nation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 27-34.
10. Charles C. Binney, Restrictions upon Local and Special Legislation in State Constitutions (Philadelphia: Kay and Brother, 1894), p. 9.
11. See Thad Beyle, “Governors: The Middlemen and Women in Our Political System” in Virginia Gray and Herbert Jacob, eds., Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis, 6th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1996).
12. Donald S. Lutz, “Toward a Theory of Constitutional Amendment,” American Political Science Review 88 (June 1994): 355-70.
13. See G. Alan Tarr, “Church and State in the States,” Washington Law Review 64 (winter 1989): 87-110.
14. A useful compilation of state guarantees is Ronald K. L. Collins, Jr., “Bills and Declarations of Rights Digest,” in The American Bench, 3d ed. (Sacramento: Reginald Bishop Forster and Associates, 1985-86).
15. On the state constitutional right to a remedy, see David Schuman, “The Right to a Remedy,” Temple Law Review 65 (winter 1992): 1197-1227.
16. On the state constitutional right to privacy, see Ken Gormley and Rhonda G. Hartman, “Privacy and the States,” Temple Law Review 65 (winter 1992): 1279-1323.
17. See G. Alan Tarr, “State Constitutionalism and ‘First Amendment’ Rights,” in Stanley Friedelbaum, ed., Human Rights in the States (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988).
18. See Robert F. Williams, “Equality Guarantees in State Constitutional Law,” Texas Law Review 63 (March-April 1985): 1195-1224.
19. Friesen, State Constitutional Law, p. 146.
20. Susan P. Fino, “Judicial Federalism and Equality Guarantees in State Supreme Courts,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 17 (winter 1987): 58-59.
21. Larry M. Elison and Fritz Snyder, The Montana State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), p. 178.