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Making modern Florida : how the spirit of reform shaped a new state constitution
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Making modern Florida : how the spirit of reform shaped a new state constitution / Mary E. Adkins ; foreword by David R. Colburn and Susan MacManus.
ISBN
9780813062853
0813062853
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016.
Physical Description
xxv, 241 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Summary
This book examines the history and impact of the 1966-68 revision of the 1885 Florida state constitution; a process in which state citizens took back powers that their forerunners over a century earlier had effectively ceded to the federal government.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2016
Series
Florida Government and Politics.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-229) and index.
Contents
The old constitutions
The U.S. Supreme Court reapportionment cases
The 1966 Constitution Revision Commission
Building a constitution's foundation
Putting it together, part I
Drafting a constitution, drafting a legislature
The CRC Debates: November and December 1966
Putting it together, part II
A new constitution.
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