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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of the Kennedy Space Center during the space race, and the impending construction of Walt Disney World overwhelmed the outdated 1885 constitution.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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• 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

• Judicial decisions
• Statutes and constitutions
• Administrative law
• Updating
• Planning and organizing research
• Secondary sources
• Rules of court and ethics
• Form books
• Looseleaf services
• Citation.

• Planning and organizing research
• Judicial decisions
• Statutes and constitutions
• Administrative law
• Updating
• Secondary sources
• Research aids
• Rules of court and ethics
• citation.

Florida Constitutional Law, a casebook used throughout Florida since 1992, is now available in a new edition. This new edition updates, deepens, and refines its focus on an array of state constitutional points. The chapters include the functions of a state constitution and how the Florida constitution is amended; separation of power issues; the major constitutional limits on legislative power; the constitutional jurisdiction of the Florida courts, as well as the separation of powers limits on the courts that resemble the article III limits on federal judicial power; units of local government and their relationship to the state and each other; the major constitutional limitations on taxation and borrowing; a selected review of various sections of the Florida constitution's declaration of rights, including Florida's privacy guarantee (which is far more extensive than privacy under the United States Constitution), and Florida's homestead provision. The third edition retains the same clear organizational scheme as the first two. Although principally a casebook, the cases are stitched together with both text and problem sets. Four basic changes have been made: the depth of coverage has been increased; more explanatory text has been added to link the major edited cases together; additional chapter subheadings have been added; and new cases have been substituted for older ones.
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