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• 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

• 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

• 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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• 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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• A case of conflict : growth, science, tradition
• The Kissimmee River story : empire and ecology
• Custom, criteria, and community : clarifying the OHWL concept
• Drawing the line : the changing status of the natural world
• Lawyers, landowners, surveyors, and the state : the OHWL language wars
• A new low for the ordinary high water line : the demand for certainty
• Down to the waterline : the nature of our place.

In most states the boundary separating public waters from private uplands - the ordinary high water line (OHWL) - is a flashpoint between proponents of either property rights or public-trust protection of our water. Using Florida as a case study, Down to the Waterline is the first book-length analysis of the OHWL doctrine and its legal, technical, and cultural underpinnings. Sara Warner not only covers the historical function of the OHWL but tells how advances in science and our environmental attitudes have led us to a more complex encounter with this ancient boundary. Florida sees a steady influx of new residents who crowd along its extensive coasts and interior shorelines - yet who also demand pristine water resources. The OHWL establishes public access and private ownership limits on some of the state's most valuable land: in economic terms, waterfront real estate; in ecological terms, marshes and wetlands. Sara Warner brings to life many of the courtroom battles fought over the OHWL through the perspectives of ranchers, outdoors enthusiasts, developers, surveyors, scientists, and policymakers. While explaining the OHWL's legal and political intricacies, Warner never loses sight of the wonder of herons wading a marsh or a large-mouth bass breaking a smooth lake surface. To her the OHWL is not just an ideological battleground; it is a marker of how we see the natural world. What do we think we're doing when we channel a river or fill a swamp? she asks - for it matters greatly where we focus our attention before invoking the awesome capabilities of technology.
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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.

• World War I, the boom, and the bust
• The Supreme Court in transition
• Case decisions for a tumultuous era
• Economic calamity and war's challenge
• The court in trying times
• Case decisions of the Great Depression and World War II era
• The postwar boom
• The postwar bar
• The postwar Supreme Court
• Case decisions of the postwar era
• The civil rights era
• The Supreme Court, Federal judicial activism, and the civil rights era
• Case decisions of the civil rights era
• A peaceful revolution of earthquake proportions
• The Supreme Court and its own revolution
• Case decisions, 1964-1972.

Brown and Manley, two award-winning legal and Florida history scholars, offer an in-depth analysis of the court, the individuals who sat on its bench, the major subject areas of appeals it considered, and the influences that propelled its evolution during an era that was crucial to Florida's emergence as a national force. This court presided through two world wars, the issues of desegregation and growth management, court scandals, and the emergence of drug trafficking in South Florida. In a series of distinct but connected vignettes that draw effectively on oral interviews, the volume provides the first examination of the events that shaped the Florida Supreme Court. One of the few such studies of any state supreme court in the United States, it provides insights into judicial, political, and governmental processes applicable beyond the state. Further, it places hundreds of crucial court decisions within the context of state and national history. The authors delve deeply into controversies within the supreme court, including the associations, interests, and actions of individual tribunal members. Justices forgotten by history or subjected to professional slight emerge as dynamic and positive factors while the reputations of others, previously heralded for their service, face a level of critical scrutiny they had eluded. All of the men who served on the tribunal during the period appear unencumbered by the mystique of their office. As such, the authors offer a solid foundation for understanding scandals that rocked the court in the mid-1970s. From these circumstances emerged the court whose decision to recount the 2000 presidential election votes was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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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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• 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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