Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
This Essay explores the people's right to amend state constitutions and threats to that right today. It explains how democratic proportionality review can help courts distinguish unconstitutional infringement of the right from legitimate regulation. More broadly, the Essay considers the distinctive state constitutional architecture that popular amendment illuminates.
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Law | State and Local Government Law
Recommended Citation
Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Miriam Seifter,
The Right To Amend State Constitutions,
133
Yale L. J. F.
191
(2023).
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