American State Constitutions: A Historical Series and Database

美国各州宪法：历史系列和数据库

• 批准号: 0078849
• 负责人: John Wallis
• 金额: $ 11.94万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0078849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: American; State; Constitutions; Historical; Series

Since 1776, American states have continually amended and revised their constitutions. States have experimented with a wide variety of suffrage, representation, legislative structures, judicial structures, corporate law, and public finance. The constitutions themselves are a record of fundamental institutional change in American history. It is a record that not only reflects changes in the way Americans think about their governments, but a record of the changing institutional constraints on the American economy.Since 1997 we have been assembling the texts of the state constitutions and their amendments. Most of the texts are now available on our web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/wallis/constitution.asp. The constitutions will ultimately be indexed by article and section. The index will include thirty main divisions and roughly a thousand topics. The database containing the constitutions can be searched by date, state, and topic. Text can be downloaded in the form of constitutions, articles, and sections.The proposed research will allow us to complete the coding and indexing of the constitutions; complete the collection and integration of constitutional amendments into the data base; and construct a series of data sets measuring attributes of constitutions. These data sets cover a range of topics. They will be in the form of spreadsheets with detailed breakdowns by state and year for each entry. The data sets will also be available through the web site.

自1776年以来，美国国家一直对其宪法进行修改和修订。各州已经尝试了各种选举权，代表，立法结构，司法结构，公司法和公共财政。宪法本身是美国历史上基本制度变化的记录。这是一份记录，不仅反映了美国人对政府的思考方式的变化，而且还反映了对美国经济的机构限制变化的记录。1997年，我们一直在汇编国家宪法的文本及其修正案。现在，大多数文本都可以在我们的网站上找到：www.bsos.umd.edu/wallis/constitution.asp。宪法最终将按文章和部分索引。该指数将包括三十个主要部门和大约一千个主题。包含宪法的数据库可以按日期，状态和主题搜索。可以以宪法，文章和部分的形式下载文本。拟议的研究将使我们能够完成宪法的编码和索引；将宪法修正案的收集和集成到数据库中；并构建一系列数据集测量宪法的属性。这些数据集涵盖了一系列主题。它们将以电子表格的形式，每条条目按州和年份进行详细的细分。数据集也将通过网站可用。