State Constitutions:Charters or Straitjackets? 03

State Constitutions: Charters or Straitjackets?

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•The roots of state constitutions

•A. Constitutional rigidity and evasion

• 1. State constitutions contain more details than the U.S. Constitution does

• 2. Because of the very nature of state government—a state legislature has power to act unless the constitution takes it away—state constitutions are likely to be more detailed, more complex, and longer than the U.S. Constitution

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