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• Preface
• Introduction
• Political structure
• Electoral process
• Environment
• Access to information
• Court proceedings
• Criminal prosecutions
• Guns
• Health and medicine
• Labor and employment
• Personal expression
• Property
• Legislature
• Executive
• Judiciary
• Counties
• Municipalities
• Schools
• Special districts
• Budgeting
• Taxes
• Bonds
• Amendments
• Schedules

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Florida Constitution. After briefly describing the constitution's history (chapter 1), it organizes the constitution's numerous subjects into five discrete units: sovereignty (chapters 2-4); citizens' rights (chapters 5-12); government operations (chapters 13-19); public finances (chapters 20-22); and constitutional amendments (chapters 23-24). Specific sections of the constitution can be accessed quickly using the book's finding table. The text includes more than 1,000 case citations; extensive references to primary and secondary sources; and a select bibliography.
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• Preface and acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Getting started : an overview of the research process
• Executing and organizing research
• Researching secondary sources
• Researching statutes and constitutions
• Researching administrative law
• Researching judicial decisions
• Updating sources with citators
• Researching rules of court and ethics
• Researching federal law
• Understanding legal citation

"This book fulfills the need of beginning legal researchers-and experienced researchers new to Florida sources-for concise explanations of Florida's essential legal resources. It combines information about specific sources with an introduction to research methods that will enable researchers to move beyond the sources described in the text as new legal research tools emerge"-- Provided by publisher

• Love has won the day
• The railroad tracks
• Searching for purpose
• Down on my knees
• A passion for the law
• Back to school
• Staying sober
• Community service is my lottery ticket
• Advocacy on another level
• David and Goliath
• A ballot initiative?
• Law school
• Wouldn't it be great if I made Dean's list?
• The greatest indicator of citizenship
• No man is an island
• Cooking up some gumbo
• Blood is thicker than water
• Let's rock this thing
• The home stretch
• Love will win the day

"Desmond Meade tells the story of his fight to pass Amendment 4 in Florida, which would restore voting rights to felons who have served their terms"-- Provided by publisher

• General jurisdiction courts
• Spanish courts / M.C. Mirow
• British courts / Robert M. Jarvis
• Territorial courts / Christopher A. Vallandingham
• Confederate courts / Robert W. Lee
• Special jurisdiction courts
• Military courts / David J.R. Frakt
• Religious courts / Donna Litman
• Black courts / Ernesto A. Longa
• Indian courts / Tonya Kowalski and Robert M. Jarvis.

Pushing past the standard federal-state narrative, the essays in Florida's Other Courts examine eight little-known Florida courts. In doing so, they fill a longstanding gap in the state's legal literature. In Part I, the contributors profile Florida's courts under the Spanish and British empires and during its existence as a U.S. territory and a member of the Confederate States of America. In Part II, they describe four modern-era courts: those governing military personnel stationed in Florida; adherents of specific religious faiths in Florida; residents of Miami's black neighborhoods during the waning days of Jim Crow segregation; and members of the Miccosukee and Seminole Indian tribes. Including extensive notes, a detailed index, and a complete table of cases, this volume offers a new and compelling look at the development of justice in Florida.
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• Introduction / James M. Denham
• Spanish courts / M.C. Mirow
• British courts / Robert M. Jarvis
• Territorial courts / Christopher A. Vallandingham
• Confederate courts / Robert W. Lee
• Military courts / David J.R. Frakt
• Religious courts / Donna Litman
• Black courts / Ernesto A. Longa
• Indian courts / Tonya Kowalski and Robert M. Jarvis.

Pushing past the standard federal-state narrative, the essays in Florida's Other Courts examine eight little-known Florida courts. In doing so, they fill a longstanding gap in the state's legal literature. In Part I, the contributors profile Florida's courts under the Spanish and British empires and during its existence as a U.S. territory and a member of the Confederate States of America. In Part II, they describe four modern-era courts: those governing military personnel stationed in Florida; adherents of specific religious faiths in Florida; residents of Miami's black neighborhoods during the waning days of Jim Crow segregation; and members of the Miccosukee and Seminole Indian tribes. Including extensive notes, a detailed index, and a complete table of cases, this volume offers a new and compelling look at the development of justice in Florida.
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• Article I : declaration of rights
• Article II : general provisions
• Article III : legislature
• Article IV : executive
• Article V : judiciary
• Article VI : suffrage and elections
• Article VII : finance and taxation
• Article VIII : local government
• Article IX : education
• Article X : miscellaneous
• Article XI : amendments
• Article XII : schedule.

With an introduction that traces the long constitutional history of Florida, Talbot D'Alemberte provides a thorough understanding of Florida's state constitutional history. He includes an in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the entire constitution, detailing the many significant changes that have been made since its initial drafting. This treatment, along with a table of cases, index, and bibliography, provides an unsurpassed reference guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of Florida's constitution. This second edition provides analysis of Florida's State Constitution with updated commentary focusing on the many court decisions rendered since the 1990s, summarizing the state's current jurisprudence and the increasing use of Florida's many methods of Constitution Amendment, including initiative, Legislative, Constitution Revision Commission and Tax and Budget Reform Commission adopted proposals. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.
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• Chronology of cases and important events
• Four horsemen of the reformation
• 1974 : Overton and England
• 1975 : Sundberg and Hatchett
• Article V : architects of change
• The third branch
• The spirit of 1976 : reformers take control
• Unexpected replacements : Alderman and McDonald
• Playing chicken with courtroom cameras
• Access to legal services : who will serve the poor?
• "Save the Supreme Court"
• Personal injury : a collision of interests
• Media law : satyrs, beer trucks, and teachers
• Personal injury : a wrong finds a remedy
• Divorce and family litigation : till the judge do us part
• Environment and growth : property rights and the public good
• Death penalty : the long last mile
• The machinery of death
• The "e" seat : Ervin to England to Ehrlich
• Accepting gays
• Reapportionment : where to draw the lines
• Search and seizure : reshaping constitutional protections
• Private lives and public values in criminal law
• Shaw : from descendant of a slave to Chief Justice
• Death penalty : deciding who dies
• Sovereign immunity : suing city hall
• Constitutional amendments : tinkering with democracy
• Open government and privacy : the Forsberg saga
• Chief Justice Boyd : the passover ends
• Criminal law : to establish justice
• "Rosemary the first"
• Virgil Hawkins : crossing the bar.

This third volume in the history of the Florida Supreme Court describes the court during its most tumultuous years. Amid the upheaval of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, the story begins with reform in the entire Florida court system. It includes the court's first black justice, Joseph Hatchett; Governor Reubin Askew's new system for merit selection of justices; and revision of Article V, the section of the state constitution dealing with the judiciary. Neil Skene moves on to cover landmark court decisions; the introduction of cameras in court; changes to media law, personal injury law, and family and divorce law; privacy rights; gay rights; death penalty cases; and the appointment of the first woman justice, Rosemary Barkett. This book is an absorbing portrayal of a judicial institution adapting to a time of deep political and social change.
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• The old constitutions
• The U.S. Supreme Court reapportionment cases
• The 1966 Constitution Revision Commission
• Building a constitution's foundation
• Putting it together, part I
• Drafting a constitution, drafting a legislature
• The CRC Debates: November and December 1966
• Putting it together, part II
• A new constitution.

This book examines the history and impact of the 1966-68 revision of the 1885 Florida state constitution; a process in which state citizens took back powers that their forerunners over a century earlier had effectively ceded to the federal government.

• The old constitutions
• The U.S. Supreme Court reapportionment cases
• The 1966 Constitution Revision Commission
• Building a constitution's foundation
• Putting it together, part I
• Drafting a constitution, drafting a legislature
• The CRC debates : November and December 1966
• Putting it together, part II
• A new constitution.

Mid-twentieth-century Florida was a state in flux. Changes exemplified by rapidly burgeoning cities and suburbs, the growth of the Kennedy Space Center during the space race, and the impending construction of Walt Disney World overwhelmed the outdated 1885 constitution. A small group of rural legislators known as the "Pork Chop Gang" controlled the state and thwarted several attempts to modernize the constitution. Through court-imposed redistribution of legislators and the hard work of state leaders, however, the executive branch was reorganized and the constitution was modernized.In Making Modern Florida, Mary Adkins goes behind the scenes to examine the history and impact of the 1966-68 revision of the Florida state constitution. With storytelling flair, Adkins uses interviews and detailed analysis of speeches and transcripts to vividly capture the moves, gambits, and backroom moments necessary to create and introduce a new state constitution. This carefully researched account brings to light the constitutional debates and political processes in the growth to maturity of what is now the nation's third largest state.
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• Introduction: Redistricting in Florida / Seth C. McKee
• Part I: Process
• Before the lines are drawn : congressional apportionment in Florida / Jeffrey W. ladewig
• New rules for an old Florida game : the 2012 legislative and congressional redistricting process / Aubrey Jewett
• The law and politics of Florida redistricting in state and federal court / Mark Jonathan McKenzie
• Part II: Politics
• Drawing the line : public support for amendments 5 and 6 / Joseph T. Eagleton and Daniel A. Smith
• Redistricting in Florida : loud voices from the grassroots / Susan A. MacManus, Joanna M. Cheshire, Tifini L. Hill, and Susan C. Schuler
• Paradoxes of political reform : congressional redistricting in Florida / Micah Altman and Michael P. McDonald
• Part III: Effects
• Running with uncertainty : candidate emergence during redistricting in Florida / Cherie D. Maestas and Travis A. Braidwood
• The participatory consequences of Florida redistricting / Danny Hayes, M. V. Hood III, and Seth C. McKee
• Elections in a brave new world : reform, redistricting, and the battle for the 2012 legislature / Jonathan Winburn
• Effects of redistricting in congressional elections / Charles S. Bullock III
• Conclusion : the never-ending story / Seth C. McKee.

This brief review of the evolution of redistricting standards, processes, and outcomes underscores the importance of scholarship examining the dynamics of each redistricting cycle. Jigsaw Puzzle Politics in the Sunshine State, edited by the highly respected political scientist, Seth C. McKee, chronicles the redistricting controversies that emerged during the 2012 cycle. Jigsaw Puzzle Politics gives readers a comprehensive look at the "hows, whens, whys, and consequences" of the most recent redistricting wars.
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• Introduction: Redistricting in Florida / Seth C. McKee
• Part I: Process
• Before the lines are drawn: congressional apportionment in Florida / Jeffrey W. ladewig
• New rules for an old Florida game: the 2012 legislative and congressional redistricting process / Aubrey Jewett
• The law and politics of Florida redistricting in state and federal court / Mark Jonathan McKenzie
• Part II: Politics
• Drawing the line: public support for amendments 5 and 6 / Joseph T. Eagleton and Daniel A. Smith
• Redistricting in Florida: loud voices from the grassroots / Susan A. MacManus, Joanna M. Cheshire, Tifini L. Hill, and Susan C. Schuler
• Paradoxes of political reform: congressional redistricting in Florida / Micah Altman and Michael P. McDonald
• Part III: Effects
• Running with uncertainty: candidate emergence during redistricting in Florida / Cherie D. Maestas and Travis A. Braidwood
• The participatory consequences of Florida redistricting / Danny Hayes, M.V. Hood III, and seth C. McKee
• Elections in a brave new world: reform, redistricting, and the battle for the 2012 legislature / Jonathan Winburn
• Effects of redistricting in congressional elections / Charles S. Bullock III
• Conclusion: the never-ending story / Seth C. McKee.

This brief review of the evolution of redistricting standards, processes, and outcomes underscores the importance of scholarship examining the dynamics of each redistricting cycle. Jigsaw Puzzle Politics in the Sunshine State, edited by the highly respected political scientist, Seth C. McKee, chronicles the redistricting controversies that emerged during the 2012 cycle. Jigsaw Puzzle Politics gives readers a comprehensive look at the "hows, whens, whys, and consequences" of the most recent redistricting wars.
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• Planning and organizing research
• Judicial decisions
• Statutes and constitutions
• Administrative law
• Updating
• Secondary sources
• Research aids
• Rules of court and ethics
• citation.

• Charley Johns and Virgil Hawkins: ambition realized, dream deferred
• Virgil Hawkins: pursuit of the dream continues
• Ruth Perry: the librarian raises her voice
• Sig Diettrich: the geographer draws the line
• G. G. Mock: surrounded by fear, empowered by love
• Margaret Fisher and her University of South Florida colleagues: intellectuals versus inquisitors
• Conclusion: Majorities of one.

The Johns Committee, a product of the red scare in Florida, grabbed headlines and destroyed lives. Its goal was to halt integration by destroying the NAACP in Florida and smearing integrationists. Citizens were first subpoenaed under charges of communist tendencies and later for homosexual or subversive behaviour. Drawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who stood up to the Johns Committee. Virgil Hawkins and Ruth Perry were civil rights activists who, respectively, foiled the committee's plans to stop integration at the University of Florida and refused to divulge Florida and Miami NAACP records. G.G.Mock, a bartender in Tampa, was arrested and shackled in the nude by police but would not reveal the name of her girlfriend, a teacher. University of Florida professor Sig Diettrich was threatened with twenty years in prison and being "outed, " yet he still would not name names. Margaret Fisher, a college administrator, helped to bring the committee's investigation of the University of South Florida into the open, publicly condemning their bullying. By re-examining the daring stands taken by these ordinary citizens, Poucher illustrates not only the abuses propagated by the committee but also the collective power of individuals to effect change.
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• Series Foreword by G. Alan Tarr
• Preface
• PART I: The Constitutional History of Florida
• PART II: The Florida Constitution and Commentary
• Article I: Declaration of Rights
• Article II: General Provisions
• Article III: Legislature
• Article IV: Executive
• Article V: Judiciary
• Article VI: Suffrage and Elections
• Article VII: Finance and Taxation
• Article VIII: Local Government
• Article IX: Education
• Article X: Miscellaneous
• Article XI: Amendments
• Article XII: Schedule
• Bibliography
• Index.
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With an introduction that traces the long constitutional history of Florida, Talbot D'Alemberte provides a thorough understanding of Florida's state constitutional history. He includes an in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the entire constitution, detailing the many significant changes that have been made since its initial drafting. This treatment, along with a table of cases, index, and bibliography, provides an unsurpassed reference guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of Florida's constitution. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series. This title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important new series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.
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• Seventeen equal pieces
• Justice Dekle's "dissent"
• School for scandal
• David McCain, eagle scout
• What's a politician to do?
• Shadows of treason
• Circling the wagons
• A "good old boy" court
• A Florida Watergate?
• Like calling Walter Cronkite
• Public trial, secret trial
• A politician first-- a justice second
• Dekle resigns
• Appearance of impropriety
• The old order is over
• The fugitive
• The keys to the courthouse
• Clear and present dangers.

In the 1970s, justices on the Florida Supreme Court were popularly elected. But a number of scandals threatened to topple the court until public outrage led to profound reforms and fundamental changes in the way justices were seated.One justice abruptly retired after being filmed on a high-roller junket to Las Vegas. Two others tried to fix cases in lower courts on behalf of campaign supporters. A fourth destroyed evidence by shredding his copy of a document into "seventeen equal" strips of paper that he then flushed down a toilet.As the journalist who wrote most of the stories that exposed these events, Martin Dyckman played a key role in revealing the corruption, favoritism, and cronyism then rampant in the court."A Most Disorderly Court" recounts this dark period in Florida politics, when stunning revelations regularly came to light. He also traces the reform efforts that ultimately led to a constitutional amendment providing for the appointment of all Florida's appellate judges, and emphasizes the absolute importance of confidential sources for journalists.
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• Judicial decisions
• Statutes and constitutions
• Administrative law
• Updating
• Planning and organizing research
• Secondary sources
• Rules of court and ethics
• Form books
• Looseleaf services
• Citation.