Under Kay Ivey, an extremely long one of these texts was recompiled in 2022 to remove segregationist language. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify these texts that, according to Jeffrey Sutton’s book 51 Imperfect Solutions, have increasingly become the basis of litigation in abortion and redistricting cases following Dobbs and Rucho.
ANSWER: state constitutions [prompt on constitutions; prompt on state laws] (Alabama’s state constitution is the longest active written constitution in the world.)
[10h] Sutton analyzed a 1973 Supreme Court case that found property-tax-based school funding in this city to be constitutional. Demetrio Rodriguez brought that case in this city, which spurred the “new judicial federalism” by inducing state supreme courts to rule that similar schemes violated their state constitutions.
ANSWER: San Antonio [or San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez]
[10m] Some state constitutions contain examples of these rights, which require states to do things like establishing public educational systems. By contrast, federal constitutional rights prohibit infringement of protected activities.
ANSWER: positive rights
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