Structuring State Constitutional Review - Comparative Perspectives

This article discusses the structure of constitution-making processes as a means of promoting constitutional legitimacy, in the context of providing advice for state-level constitutional reform in the United States. The paper discusses the potential power of procedural arrangements in constitutional review, and the reasons why constitutional reform is necessary at all, and examines the struggle between different groups to set the agenda for constitutional reform as a means to ultimately shape the substance of the reform efforts.