This article considers public school funding and the extent to which the judiciary has intervened.
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This article examines the expectations of early proponents of direct democracy and whether initiative process has fulfilled these original expectations.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis article argues that while direct democracy is subject to the corrupting influences like money, citizen voters are motivated to use the iniative to regain its integrity.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis article tracks the changes made to the mechanisms of constitutional change to identify important themes and considerations that have shaped the power of constitutional change in NY.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis commentry follows Washington State's Initative 937 as a grassroots movement that brought a pressing national concern to the political forefront.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis high court study considers the effect the election of Justice Eakin and the resulting Republican majority had on the percentage of criminal appeals decided in favor of the prosecution.
This high court study focuses on the Indiana Supreme Court’s divided criminal decisions, specifically those non-unanimous criminal decisions rendered between September 1, 2001 and August 31, 2006.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis article concludes that Minnesota’s decision tree could serve as a model for other state courts seeking a middle-ground approach that promotes uniformity and harmony.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis article undertakes a comprehensive inquiry into the meaning of state education clauses by analyzing the speeches surrounding their adoption and revision.
- State Constitutional CommentaryThis study examines every non-unanimous decision the NYS Appellate Division rendered between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005, reviewed on appeal by the Court of Appeals by June 2006.