Böcker av John J. Dinan

By undertaking a comparison of institutional methods across a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.

Given that amending the US Constitution has become all but impossible, the real battleground these days is the states, and Dinan outlines how that process works and how groups have been using it.

Shows that state constitutions are more than mere echoes of the federal document. This comprehensive study of all 114 state constitutional conventions for which there are recorded debates, shows that state constitutional debates reflect the wisdom of American constitution-makers than do the traditional studies of the federal constitution.