Making modern Florida : how the spirit of reform shaped a new state constitution / Mary E. Adkins ; foreword by David R. Colburn and Susan MacManus.
2016
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Author
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.
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
KFF401.5 .A35 2016
ISBN
9780813062853 (cloth)
0813062853 (cloth)
0813062853 (cloth)
Description
xxv, 241 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)924636089
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-229) and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
ix
Foreword
xi
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxi
Florida Constitution Timeline
xxiii
Introduction
1
1.
Old Constitutions
5
2.
U.S. Supreme Court Reapportionment Cases
31
3.
1966 Constitution Revision Commission
55
4.
Building a Constitution's Foundation
61
5.
Putting It Together, Part I
74
6.
Drafting a Constitution, Drafting a Legislature
102
7.
CRC Debates: November and December 1966
118
8.
Putting It Together, Part II
152
9.
New Constitution
175
Epilogue
181
Notes
197
Bibliography
219
Index
231