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Author Hill, Melvin B

Title The Georgia state constitution / Melvin B. Hill, Jr. ; foreword by R. Perry Sentell, Jr
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages)
Series The Oxford commentaries on the state constitutions of the United States
Oxford commentaries on the state constitutions of the United States.
Contents The history of the Georgia constitution -- The Georgia constitution and commentary
Summary In The Georgia State Constitution, Melvin Hill Jr. offers a detailed description of the creation and development of Georgia's constitution. He explains how political and cultural events, from colonial times, through the Civil War, to the present, have affected Georgia's constitutional law. Accompanying the full text of the constitution is Hill's rich commentary of the constitutional provisions. He traces their origins and interpretation by the courts and other governmental bodies. This volume also provides a bibliographical essay which features the most important sources of Georgia's constitut
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index
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Subject Constitutions -- Georgia
Constitutional law -- Georgia
Constitutional history -- Georgia
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
Constitutions
Georgia
Form Electronic book
Author Georgia. Constitution (1982)
ISBN 9780199877911
0199877912
1306268028
9781306268028