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Judge Jeffrey Sutton argues that state constitutions can serve an important role in carrying out the vision for "laboratories of democracy" and providing nuance that the federal constitution cannot.

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation by Jeffrey S. Sutton. Here is a description: Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who...

Author and federal judge Jeffrey Sutton argues the legislative branch of states should take a larger role in constitutional experimentation, and we should ask less of the judicial branch.