Constitutions govern governments: they create governments, grant them powers, and
impose limits on the exercise of granted powers. In the American legal order, constitutional …

The use of direct democracy is at its highest level in more than one hundred years.'The
direct initiative, which is the primary focus of this Article, allows private citizens to bypass the …

Elsewhere I have argued that measures of US state legislative professionalization assess
individual and organizational capacity to generate and evaluate information in the …

When thinking about interpretation of law we often differentiate between the fields of
common law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law. 2 The more accurate view is …

The second edition of The Law of American State Constitutions provides complete coverage
of the legal doctrines surrounding, applying to, and arising from American state constitutions …

State constitutions are coming out of the archives into the legal literature and into the
classroom. They are coming out of the literature and the classroom into the courtroom. State …

In May of 1976, in the unlikely venue of the Playboy Resort Hotel at Great Gorge, New
Jersey, Associate Justice William J. Brennan delivered a speech at an event held by the …

In this article, one will not find analysis or commentary. Rather, this article is a walking stick,
a rigid-but sturdy-companion for researchers exploring state constitutionalism. As such, it …

STATE v. CIANCANELLI 121 P.3d 613 (2005) 339 Or. 282 STATE of Oregon, Respondent
on Review, v. Charles Robert CIANCANELLI, Petitioner on Review. (CC 98CR2685FE; CA …

The effectiveness of the legal order in every state is heavily dependent on the state's
unauthorized practice laws. These laws impose restrictions on who may practice law and, in …