The California Republic Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies

by Janiskee, Brian P.; Masugi, Ken; Belz, Herman; Connerly, Ward; Coupal, Jon; Erler, Edward J.; Frates, Steven B.; Hanson, Victor Davis; Hayward, Steven F.; Johnson, Harold; Kennedy, Brian T.; Lloyd, Gordon; Marini, John; Masugi, Ken; Palm, Daniel C.; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780742532519
• ISBN10: 0742532518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-19
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The essays in The California Republic explore the evolution of Progressivism in California and also its contemporary policy consequences. Designed to work in tandem with other texts or as a stand-alone reader, the book examines themes ranging from founding principles to institutions, from local government to statesmanship, and from elections to policy analysis. By daring to use a variety of approaches, these essays lead to a greater understanding of the polity of the nation's largest state and a deeper appreciation of the nature of republican government.

Author Biography

Thomas J. Massaro, S.J., is assistant professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology Thomas A. Shannon is professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and author of more than twenty books in the field of ethics, particularly medical ethics

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: Republican Government in California	xiii
Brian P. Janiskee and Ken Masugi
Part I: California in a Federal System
Popular Sovereignty, the Right of Revolution, and California Statehood	3	(30)
Herman Belz
Nature and Convention in the Creation of the 1849 California Constitution	33	(34)
Gordon Lloyd
California and the Seventeenth Amendment	67	(30)
Ralph A. Rossum
Californians and Their Constitution: Progressivism, Direct Democracy, and the Administrative State	97	(30)
Edward J. Erler
Part II: Institutions
Broken Promise: The Rise and Fall of the California Legislature	127	(8)
Dan Walters
No Allegiance but to the State: California Governors Hiram Johnson and Gray Davis	135	(10)
Brian T. Kennedy
The Progressive Court	145	(10)
Harold Johnson
The Elections of 2002: Clear-Cut or Ambiguous?	155	(8)
Richard H. Reeb Jr.
Part III: Local Government
The Problem of Local Government in California	163	(16)
Brian P. Janiskee
Local Government Finance in California	179	(8)
Steven B. Frates
The California Tax Revolt	187	(12)
Jon Coupal
Part IV: Statesmanship
Armageddon in the West: California's Hiram Johnson	199	(20)
Scot J. Zentner
Nixon, California, and American Politics	219	(18)
John J. Pitney Jr.
Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Modern California	237	(20)
Steven F Hayward
Part V: Policies and Perspectives
Affirmative Action and Proposition 209	257	(8)
Ward Connerly
Western Justice: John Ford and Sam Peckinpah on the Defense of the Heroic	265	(14)
John Marini
California Farming in a Classical Context	279	(12)
Victor Davis Hanson
The Politics of California Public Education	291	(6)
Larry Peterman
The Least Secure Right: Privately Owned Firearms in California	297	(14)
Daniel C. Palm
California's Political Mass Media	311	(6)
Richard H. Reeb Jr.
An EPIC Legacy	317	(8)
Stephen Schwartz
Water, Water Everywhere and Nary a Drop to Drink	325	(8)
Ric Williams
Bibliography	333	(16)
Index	349	(16)
About the Contributors	365