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The Role Of A Bill Of Rights In A Modern State Constitution: Introduction, John M. Steel
The Role Of A Bill Of Rights In A Modern State Constitution: Introduction, John M. Steel
Washington Law Review
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Why A State Bill Of Rights?, Vern Countryman
Why A State Bill Of Rights?, Vern Countryman
Washington Law Review
Historical perspective reveals that the recent activism of the federal courts in the area of political and civil rights was largely necessitated by the unwillingness of state courts to recast those rights in molds adapted to our changing society. Federal supplementation of the states' inaction in this field has now regrettably caused many state courts to assume a posture of even more begrudging conservatism in the interpretation and implementation of our political and civil tights. In this background, Professor Countryman advocates state legislative initiative to formulate new and broad general principles for protecting our fundamental rights, He identifies three major …
New Horizons For A State Bill Of Rights, Arval A. Morris
New Horizons For A State Bill Of Rights, Arval A. Morris
Washington Law Review
Professor Morris, examines the current scope of the Washington State Constitution, originally designed for a frontier people in a railroad economy, and deficient in a number of elements critical to the Washington society of today and 100 years hence. With particular emphasis on what new rights must be set forth in textual guarantees, the author examines the problems and implications of a menagerie of changed circumstances and contemporary social ills, including racial integration, invasions of privacy by public and private modes of surveillance, the deterioration of the life and structures of our cities, the threat of administrative abuses in the …
Convening A Constitutional Convention In Washington Through The Use Of The Popular Initative, John W. Hempelmann
Convening A Constitutional Convention In Washington Through The Use Of The Popular Initative, John W. Hempelmann
Washington Law Review
Using Washington as a model for discussion this comment explores the doctrines which have limited the application of the flexible principles of popular sovereignty to the problems presented in the calling of a Constitutional Convention. The author concludes: that the people of the state of Washington can call such a convention by the use of the popular initiative; that earlier notions that changes in state governmental structure could only be accomplished by strict conformity to the procedures in the existing constitution have been supplanted by the resurgence of the doctrines of popular sovereignty; and that the broad theoretical underpinnings for …
Constitutional Law—Voting Rights—State English Literacy Requirements Upheld.—Mexican-American Federation-Washington State V. Naff, 299 F.Supp. 587 (E.D. Wash. 1969), Anon
Washington Law Review
The four individual plaintiffs, who were participating in a voter registration project initiated by the plaintiff Federation, appeared on separate occasions in the offices of the deputy voting registrars for the towns of Zillah and Toppenish, Washington, intending to register to vote. Each time, the applicants were accompanied by an interpreter associated with the Federation, who informed the registration officers that the applicants wished to register to vote and that he would act as Spanish-English interpreter. But the registration officers insisted that the applicants present their requests in person and in English, and refused to register them when it became …