Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation

Please join the Columbus Lawyers Chapter as we welcome Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton to discuss his new book " Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation." Below is a description of the book:

In Who Decides, the influential US Appellate Court Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton focuses on the constitutional structure of the American states to answer the question of who should decide the key questions of public policy today. By concentrating on the role of governmental structure in shaping power across the 50 American states, Sutton develops a powerful explanation of American constitutional law, in all of its variety, as opposed to just federal constitutional law. As in his earlier book, 51 Imperfect Solutions, which looked at how American federalism allowed the states to serve as laboratories of innovation for protecting individual liberty and property rights, Sutton compares state-level governments with the federal government and draws numerous insights from the comparisons. Instead of focusing on individual rights, however, he focuses on the structure, while continuing to develop some of the core themes of his previous book.

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