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State Supreme Court Responsiveness To Court Curbing: Examining The Use Of Judicial Review, Meghan Leonard Jan 2022

State Supreme Court Responsiveness To Court Curbing: Examining The Use Of Judicial Review, Meghan Leonard

Faculty Publications – Politics and Government

State legislatures introduce court-curbing legislation as they threaten to restrict the independence of state high courts. While scholars have examined when this legislation is introduced and what drives the introduction, we know little about how state supreme courts react to this legislation. In this paper I begin the examination into how state courts react to court-curbing legislation by looking to the court’s exercise of its judicial review power. I theorize that state supreme courts are less likely to invoke their power of judicial review when facing increased court-curbing legislation because judicial review is the most direct form of communication between …


Book Review. The Lawmakers: Recruitment And Adaptation To Legislative Life By J. D. Barber, A. Dan Tarlock Jan 1966

Book Review. The Lawmakers: Recruitment And Adaptation To Legislative Life By J. D. Barber, A. Dan Tarlock

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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George W. Norris's Persuasion In The Campaign For The Unicameral Legislature, Phillip K. Tompkins Jul 1957

George W. Norris's Persuasion In The Campaign For The Unicameral Legislature, Phillip K. Tompkins

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The people of forty-seven states in this country are governed by bicameral or two-house legislatures. The people of the forty-eighth, Nebraskans, are governed by a unicameral or one-house legislature.

On November 6, 1934, the people of Nebraska provided by amendment to their state constitution, a one-house legislature to be composed of between thirty and fifty members to be elected on a non-partisan ballot. The number of solons was later set at forty-three, and 1957 marked the twentieth anniversary of the first unicameral session in Nebraska.

Senator George W. Norris is generally regarded by all as the father of the unicameral …


Can American State Legislatures Keep Pace?, Frank Edward Horack Jr. Jan 1954

Can American State Legislatures Keep Pace?, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. State Legislative Committees By C. I. Winslow, Frank Edward Horack Jr. Jan 1933

Book Review. State Legislative Committees By C. I. Winslow, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.