This is the definitive guide to the Arizona State Constitution, and will be an invaluable tool for lawyers, political scientists, and historians. It includes a compact constitutional history, the full text of the Constitution with a section-by-section commentary, a bibliographic essay, a table of significant court decisions, and a full general index. The history describes the politics of the statehood process, the federal influence on the 1910 constitutional convention, and the amendments proposed and approved from statehood in 1912 through the fall of 1992. The commentary crisply discusses the evolution and interpretation of each section, including significant court decisions. Adopted at the height of the progressive movement, the Constitution of 1910 contained many progressive innovations. Its adaptation to the dramatic changes the state has undergone in subsequent decades should prove of wide interest.
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JOHN D. LESHY is currently the Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. He is on leave from his position as Professor of Law at Arizona State University. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he is author The Mining Law: A Study in Perpetual Motion and co-author of the standard text on federal public land and resources law.