Constitutional Politics in the States

G. ALAN TARR is Director of the Council for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. He is author and coauthor of several books in judicial politics, including rican Constitutional Law, 4th Edition95), and te Supreme Courts in State and Nation88). He also serves as series editor on Reference Guides to the State Constitutions in the United States, published by Greenwood Press.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Patterns in State Constitutional Politics State Constitutional Politics: An Historical Perspective by G. Alan Tarr Patterns in the Amending of American State Constitutions by Donald S. Lutz Constitutional Amendment Through the Legislature in New York by Gerald Benjamin and Melissa Cusa Case Studies: Campaigns for Constitutional Change Creating a State Constitutional Right to Privacy: Unlikely Alliances, Uncertain Results by Rebecca Mae Salokar The Politics of Term Limitations by John David Rausch, Jr. Crime as a Boogeyman: Why Californians Changed Their Constitution to Include a "Victims' Bill of Rights" (And What It Really Did) by Candace McCoy Case Studies: The Consequences of Constitutional Change California's Constitutional Counterrevolution by Barry Latzer School Finance and Inequality in New Jersey by Russell S. Harrison and G. Alan Tarr Bibliographic Essay Index