Constitutional amendments

The American Civil War is usually attributed to the secession of the southern states or slavery in general. These reasons were promulgated by the Republicans to avoid the onus of the terrible destruction and loss of life involved. An important source of information is the pletho…

This dissertation examines the factors associated with the diffusion of state constitutional victims’ rights amendments across the United States in the twenty-year period of 1982 to 2001 to understand the impact of the federal government on state constitutional change. Because e…