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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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Additional Authors
  • Colburn, David R.
  • MacManus, Susan A.
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.
Subject
  • Constitutions > Florida
  • Constitutional law > Florida
  • Constitutional law
  • Constitutions
  • Florida
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