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Making modern Florida : how the spirit of reform shaped a new state constitution
- Title
- Making modern Florida : how the spirit of reform shaped a new state constitution / Mary E. Adkins ; foreword by David R. Colburn and Susan MacManus.
- Author
- Adkins, Mary E.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- ©2016
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| Text | Request in advance | KFF401.5 .A35 2016 | Off-site |
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- 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.
- Series Statement
- Florida Government and Politics
- Uniform Title
- Florida government and politics.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780813062853
- 0813062853
- LCCN
- 2016015364
- 99970694901
- OCLC
- 924636089
- ocn924636089
- SCSB-5880918
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries