The Michigan Constitutional Convention

The Role of the Philadelphia Convention in Constitutional Adjudication

Max Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 shed light on the intricacies of the debates of the framers over the text of the Constitution. They do not, however, provide authoritative evidence of constitutional meaning. The Philadelphia Convention, after all, was conducted in secret, and the ratifiers, operating in thirteen distinct conventions in culturally and politically diverse s...

The European Convention on Human Rights and National Constitutional Reordering

The Main Issues After the Convention on the Constitutional Treaty for Europe

It will ultimately be necessary for the European Union (“EU”) to stop simultaneously handling economic issues by the Community method and foreign policy measures by an undemocratic intergovernmental method. When the time comes for a single method to be chosen, it is important for the long-term stability of the Union and for the small Member States, that the Commission and the Community method i...

For some in the grassroots, constitutional convention presents conundrum - Times Union

Voting Machines and Voter Participation in Four Michigan Constitutional Revision Referenda Norman

HE ANALYSIS of voting and elections has undoubtedly become one of the ~ principal areas of investigation for political scientists, especially among those .M primarily concerned with American politics. Quite understandably, much of the research on the subject has tended to focus on individual voting behavior and its relationship to psychological and sociological variables.’ This research has pro...