Legal History of the United States by State - Legal History of Alaska, Legal History of Connecticut, Legal History of Hawaii (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Chapters: Legal History of Alaska, Legal History of Connecticut, Legal History of Hawaii, Legal History of Massachusetts, Legal History of Missouri, Legal History of New York, Legal History of Pennsylvania, Lemon V. Kurtzman, Planned Parenthood V. Casey, New York Constitution, Council of Appointment, Boyer V. Boyer, New York Court of Common Pleas, Prigg V. Pennsylvania, Act of Consolidation, 1854, Hawaii Admission Act, Hawaiian Organic Act, Missouri Compromise, Blue Laws, Erie V. Pap's A. M., Coal and Iron Police, Hawaiian Homelands, Lease and Release, New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments, Sturges V. Crowninshield, Cooley V. Board of Wardens, New York State Circuit Courts, Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals, Massachusetts Government Act, New York Court of Chancery, Upland Court, Alaska Native Allotment Act, Sullivan Ordinance, Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Excerpt: The Constitution of the State of New York establishes the structure of the government of the State of New York, and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of New York. Like most state constitutions in the United States, New York's constitution's provisions tend to be more detailed, and amended more often than its federal counterpart. Because the history of the state constitution differs from the federal constitution, the New York Court of Appeals has seen fit to interpret analogous provisions differently from United States Supreme Court's interpretation of federal provisions. New York State has had five constitutions, adopted in 1777, 1821, 1846, 1894, and 1938. In the 20th century alone it held three constitutional conventions, the efforts of two of which (1915 and 1967) were rejected by the electorate. The constitution produced by the 1938 convention (itself substantially a modification of the 1894 con...