Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation"
English | ISBN: 0197582184 | 2021 | 496 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0197582184 | 2021 | 496 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A unique defense of Federalism, making the case that constitutional law in America–encompassing the systems of all 51 governments–should have a role in assessing the right balance of power among all branches of our state and federal governments.
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the disputes of the day often turns on who decides them. And our acceptance of the resolution of those disputes often turns on who the decision maker is-because it reveals who governs us.
In Who Decides, the influential US Appellate Court Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton focuses on the constitutional structure of the American states to answer the question of who should decide the key questions of public policy today. By concentrating on the role of governmental structure in shaping power across the 50 American states, Sutton develops a powerful explanation of American constitutional law, in all of its variety, as opposed to just federal constitutional law. As in his earlier book,
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