The Tennessee State Constitution: A Reference GuideGreenwood Press, 1990 - 193 pages
Documenting the constitutional history of Tennessee, Part one charts the rise to statehood and the constitutions of 1796, 1835, and that of 1870 which remained unamended until 1953. Part two presents valuable commentary on the constitution's preamble and 11 articles including the declaration of rights, the distribution of powers, the executive department, elections, impeachments, the judicial department, state and county officers, militia, disqualification, oaths, bribery of electors, new counties, and miscellaneous provisions. Following the second section is an annotated bibliography of Tennessee constitutional history, includes general references as well as references to pre-statehood compacts, the constitutions of 1796 and 1835, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the 1865 amendments, the constitution of 1870, attempted constitutional reform, and five constitutional conventions from 1953 to 1977. A table of cases completes a resource that will be referred to and relied upon by constitutional scholars and students as well as legal historians. |
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... jurisdiction of the supreme court is appellate only . That means that issues before the supreme court have been decided by an inferior court and the supreme court looks only at the record of the inferior court . The supreme court will ...
... jurisdiction over juveniles must be lawyers , however . It only restricts those that are not lawyers from exercising jurisdiction in certain matters , for which an attorney must be appointed ( Tenn . Att . Gen. Op . 85-170 [ May 20 ...
... Jurisdiction of inferior courts . The jurisdiction of the Circuit , Chancery and other Inferior Courts , shall be as now established by law , until changed by the Legislature . This section vests in the general assembly the power to ...
Contents
THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY | 1 |
COMMENTARY 29200 | 30 |
No Corruption of Blood or Forfeiture of Estates | 47 |
Copyright | |
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