Ch. 3

Daisy Alcaraz
Patricia Andrews
State and Local Government
February 19, 2019
CH.3
Chapter three talked about the constitution. In this chapter we learned about a practice called judicial interpretation. Judicial interpretation is a practice in which judges modify the force of a constitutional provision by reinterpreting its meaning which is interesting because I always believed that the constitution was supposed to be followed to the t. In addition to not having to follow the constitution to the T, there is also a new judicial federalism. Which is the practice some state courts use where they will use the bill of rights in their state constitution to provide more protection to some rights which at times is not provided by the supreme court’s interpretation of the bill of rights which is in the constitution. These states constitutions have taken on more meaning because the state judges are looking to state constitutions for support rather than to use the constitution. This isn’t just happening all willy nilly, a state commissions that recommends changes in the state constitution for action by the legislature and vote by the voters is called the revision commission. Along with this we the people also have the right for a constitutional initiative petition, which is a device that permits voters to place specific amendments to a state constitution on the ballot by petition. With each state constitution there are rules that they must follow, first and foremost they can not have less rights they can only add more rights. Which tend to be more practical than the US constitution. Which is a lot to say since they play a central role in defining meaning rights of individuals, but it is also important to keep in mind that they vary from state to state due to the different demographics of people in each state.

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