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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810250303321

Autore

Adkins Mary E.

Titolo

Making modern Florida : how the spirit of reform shaped a new state constitution / / Mary E. Adkins ; foreword by David R. Colburn and Susan A. MacManus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8130-5180-0

0-8130-5251-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Florida Government and Politics

Disciplina

342.759023

Soggetti

Constitutions - Florida

Constitutional law - Florida

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.