US Federal, State, Territorial and Tribal Constitutions

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1. State-Local Relations “The states created their own governing structures. As in other states, Michigan’s constitution and laws formed the local levels of government (nothing in the U.S. Constitution prescribes such entities as K–12 school districts, counties, townships, cities, villages, and authorities), and...
2. Federal Union in America “THE American war of independence against the German despot George III of England lasted, in the opinion of an early American historian, eight times as long as it need have done, because the thirteen colonies fought as sovereign states. In...
3. Notes on the State of Virginia Many of the elementary documents relating to Nova Scotia’s constitutional history can be found within Jefferson’s carefully constructed constitutional history of Virginia, extracted here. Those documents which purported to make claims on behalf of originating (and respective) crowns are included...
4. Royal Proclamation, October 7th, 1763 George II. WHEREAS WE have taken into Our Royal Consideration the extensive and valuable Acquisitions in America, secured to our Crown by the late Definitive Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February last; and being desirous...
5. Provincializing Constitutions: History, Narrative, and the Disappearance of Canada’s Provincial Constitutions “Constitutional scholarship in Canada since Confederation has been characterized by two primary narratives. The dualist narrative, which characterized constitutional scholarship between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, focused on the parallel developments of provincial and federal constitutions. The monist narrative, which...
6. State Centralization and the Decline of Local Government in Malawi “This article posits that, for various reasons, the centralization of the state and local government administrations has been a dominant characteristic of the Malawi political system. This centralization may be explained by historically specific factors. It has its roots in...
7. Treaty of Peace and Friendship Last Week the Treaty of Peace and Friendship was concluded between this Government and the Chibenacadie Tribe of [Mi’kmaq], inhabiting the Eastern Coasts of this province. And this Day his Excellency the Governour was pleased, with the Advice and Consent...
8. On the Deplorable State of the [Mi’kmaq] “A human being as he comes originally from the hand of nature, is everywhere the same.” “…The Planter was now struck with shame, and confusion, when he recognized, in his kind protector the [indigenous person] whom he so harshly treated....
9. State versus society? Local government and the reconstruction of the Russian state “This paper sets out to demonstrate that the evolution of Russian local government reflects the continuing debate between two traditions or theories of what local government should be: a centralising tradition which does not recognise the claims of either local...
10. Do Municipal Mergers Reduce Costs? Evidence from a German Federal State “We find significant reductions in (administrative) expenditures after compulsory mergers. Voluntary mergers, on the other hand, have no effect on expenditures. We also show that the effects of voluntary and compulsory mergers vary according to further (secondary) characteristics of a...