Contitution and Systems of the State

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The California State Constitution establishes and describes the obligations, authority, organization and function of the California state government. The main articles of the California State Constitution deal with everything from establishment of personal rights, to governmental election processes, to procedures available to amend or revise the document. Many of the rights explained - and the procedures for election processes that are elucidated in the document - are in direct conjunction with that of the US Constitution. The California State Constitution also clarifies the services that the judicial, educational, and social systems of the state provide. The following should not only further introduce the main articles of the California State Constitution and compare their premises to those of the US Constitution, but should also identify the current effectiveness of the aforementioned state-provided judicial, educational and social systems.
    The first main article of the California State Constitution is Article one itself: Declaration of Rights (leginfo.ca.gov, n.d.). This article lays out the rights of California citizens and is very closely tied to the rights explained in the US Constitution, more specifically to the Bill of Rights. For instance, section two of Article one of the California Constitution deals with freedom of speech, assembly, and of press, as does the first amendment to the US Constitution (The Federal Convention, 1787). In fact most of the rights explai...

Submitted by: dozer138
Date Submitted: 11-16-2011
Category: History
Words: 1259
Pages: 5.04