Who Decides? : States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation Jeffrey S. Sutton

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197582184
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197582183
• Author: Jeffrey S. Sutton 

Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the disputes of the day often turns on who decides them. And our acceptance of the resolution of those disputes often turns on who the decision maker is-because it reveals who governs us.

In Who Decides, the influential US Appellate Court Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton focuses on the constitutional structure of the American states to answer the question of who should decide the key questions of public policy today. By concentrating on the role of governmental structure in shaping power across the 50 American states, Sutton develops a powerful explanation of American constitutional law, in all of its variety, as opposed to just federal constitutional law. As in his earlier book, 51 Imperfect Solutions, which looked at how American federalism allowed the states to serve as laboratories of innovation for protecting individual liberty and property rights, Sutton compares state-level governments with the federal government and draws numerous insights from the comparisons. Instead of focusing on individual rights, however, he focuses on structure, while continuing to develop some of the core themes of his previous book.

Table contents:

Part I The Judicial Branch
1. Umpiring and Gerrymandering
2. Judicial Review
3. Judicial Selection
4. Are You a Territorial Judge or a Territorial Lawyer?
Part II The Executive Branches
5. One Chief Executive or Many?
6. Administrative Law
Part III The Legislative Branch
7. State Legislatures and Distrust
8. Trying to Make Legislatures More Representative
Part IV Federalism Within Federalism
9. Local Governments
Part V The Amendment Process
10. Amending Constitutions to Meet Changing Circumstances
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Index

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