The Constitutional States
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The federal Constitution is a floor, not a ceiling. In state after state, constitutional provisions that track the language of the federal Bill of Rights have been interpreted by state courts to provide far greater protections for individual rights. State constitutions protect privacy where the federal Fourth Amendment does not. They protect economic liberty where Lochner's fall left federal doctrine silent. They require education funding equality where "San Antonio v. Rodriguez" declined to act. They protect reproductive rights where Dobbs withdrew federal protection. And they do so through enforceable constitutional commands, not merely aspirational principles. The Constitutional States: How State Constitutions Offer Greater Protection Than the Federal Bill of Rights is Volume V of Wayne Richard Evangelista's Constitutional Law Series — the practitioner's guide to the fifty parallel constitutional systems that operate alongside the federal Constitution and that, in crucial contexts, provide the stronger and more reliable protection for individual liberty. Wayne Richard Evangelista examines state constitutional provisions on search and seizure, free speech, privacy, due process, equal protection, property rights, education, and environmental rights, identifying where state courts have gone further than federal doctrine allows and giving practitioners the theory, the cases, and the advocacy skills to press state constitutional claims alongside federal ones. For the constitutional warrior who only litigates in federal court, this volume is the revelation of fifty untapped arsenals. State constitutional primacy doctrine, independent state grounds, state high court review, these are the mechanisms through which state constitutions deliver their superior protections, and this volume teaches you to use them.
The Constitutional States
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