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Published as Chapter 19 in Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Patricia Popelier, Nicholas Aroney & Giacomo Delledonne, eds.
The United States has an extremely robust network of subnational constitutions. It is one of the few federations in the world in which subnational entities are understood to be fully competent polities with virtually complete constituent powers of self-organization and self-authorization. The authority to adopt a subnational constitution is consequently understood to be an incident of subnational sovereignty, a concept in turn derived from a conception of the basic federal order itself as highly decentralized.
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Publication Date
8-30-2021
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
ISBN
9780367510152
First Page
294
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Law
Recommended Citation
James A. Gardner, Subnational Constitutionalism in the United States: Powerful states in a powerful federation in Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism (Patricia Popelier, Nicholas Aroney & Giacomo Delledonne, eds., Routledge 2021).