Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Patterns in State Constitutional Politics

State Constitutional Politics: An Historical Perspective by G. Alan Tarr

Patterns in the Amending of American State Constitutions by Donald S. Lutz

Constitutional Amendment Through the Legislature in New York by Gerald Benjamin and Melissa Cusa

Case Studies: Campaigns for Constitutional Change

Creating a State Constitutional Right to Privacy: Unlikely Alliances, Uncertain Results by Rebecca Mae Salokar

The Politics of Term Limitations by John David Rausch, Jr.

Crime as a Boogeyman: Why Californians Changed Their Constitution to Include a "Victims' Bill of Rights" (And What It Really Did) by Candace McCoy

Case Studies: The Consequences of Constitutional Change

California's Constitutional Counterrevolution by Barry Latzer

School Finance and Inequality in New Jersey by Russell S. Harrison and G. Alan Tarr

Bibliographic Essay

Index