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The Iowa state constitution /

"The Iowa State Constitution is the first comprehensive analysis of the Iowa Constitution and its individual provisions. In it, Jack Stark presents a comprehensive overview of Iowa's constitutional historical development and discusses cases of particular importance. Also included are a bib...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stark, Jack, 1939-
Autor Corporativo: Iowa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, USA, [2011]
Colección:Oxford commentaries on the state constitutions of the United States.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Series Foreword; Foreword; PART ONE: The History of the Iowa Constitution; The Constitutional Conventions: Building a State; The Early Years of Statehood: Freedom of the Press, Ending the Board of Education, Racial Issues; The Remainder of the Nineteenth Century: Prohibition, Religion in the Schools, Elections; The Early Twentieth Century: Elections and Suffrage Issues, Responses to the Depression; The Modern Era: A Judicial Change of Heart, An Attempt at a Constitutional Convention, Grants of Power to the Three Branches, Reapportionment, Gambling.
  • PART TWO: The Iowa Constitution and CommentaryPreamble and Boundaries; Article I: Bill of Rights; Section 1. Rights of Persons; Section 2. Political Power; Section 3. Religion; Section 4. Religious Test-Witnesses; Section 6. Laws Uniform; Section 7. Liberty of Speech and Press; Section 8. Personal Security-Searches and Seizures; Section 9. Right of Trial by Jury-Due Process of Law; Section 10. Rights of Persons Accused; Section 11. When Indictment Necessary-Grand Jury; Section 12. Twice Tried-Bail; Section 13. Habeas Corpus; Section 14. Military; Section 15. Quartering Soldiers.
  • Section 16. TreasonSection 17. Bail-Punishments; Section 18. Eminent Domain-Drainage Ditches and Levees; Section 19. Imprisonment for Debt; Section 20. Right of Assemblage-Petition; Section 21. Attainder-ex post facto Law-Obligation of Contract; Section 22. Resident Aliens; Section 23. Slavery-Penal Servitude; Section 24. Agricultural Leases; Section 25. Rights Reserved; Article II: Right of Suffrage; Section 1. Electors; Section 2. Privileged from Arrest; Section 3. From Military Duty; Section 4. Persons in Military Service; Section 5. Disqualified Persons; Section 6. Ballot.
  • Section 7. General ElectionsArticle III: Of the Distribution of Powers; DIVISION 1; Section 1. Departments of Government; DIVISION 2: LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT; Section 1. General Assembly; Section 2. Annual Sessions of General Assembly-Special Sessions; Section 3. Representatives; Section 4. Qualifications; Section 5. Senators-Qualifications; Section 6. Senators-Number and Classification; Section 7. Officers-Elections Determined; Section 8. Quorum; Section 9. Authority of the Houses; Section 10. Protest-Record of Votes; Section 11. Privileged from Arrest; Section 12. Vacancies.
  • Section 13. Doors OpenSection 14. Adjournments; Section 15. Bills; Section 16. Executive Approval-Veto-Item Veto by Governor; Section 17. Passage of Bills; Section 18. Receipts and Expenditures; Section 19. Impeachment; Section 20. Officers Subject to Impeachment-Judgment; Section 21. Members Not Appointed to Office; Section 22. Disqualification; Section 23. Failure to Account; Section 24. Appropriations; Section 25. Compensation and Expenses of General Assembly; Section 26. Time Laws to Take Effect; Section 27. Divorce; Section 29. Acts-One Subject-Expressed in Title.
  • Section 30. Local or Special Laws-General and Uniform-Boundaries of Counties.