U.S. State Constitutions—Selected Secondary Sources Pre-1980
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union (1st ed.) by Publication Date: 1868Link is to HeinOnline.
Also available in Google Books.- A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union by Publication Date: 1972 (reprint of 1868 1st ed.)
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union, 5th ed. by Publication Date: 1883This was the latest edition before the Washington Constitutional Convention.
Also available on HeinOnline and Google Books- Growth of American State Constitutions from 1776 to the End of the Year 1914 by Publication Date: 1915Also available on LLMC Digital (UW restricted)
- American State Constitutions: A Study of Their Growth by Publication Date: 1887
- Constitutional Studies: State and Federal by Call Number: 1897
U.S. State Constitutions—Selected Books Post-1980
The Constitutionalism of American States by Publication Date: 2008Includes chapters on many individual state constitutions. Washington chapter is "Washington : the past and present populist state," by Hugh D. Spitzer. Also available as an ebook.
Dialogue among State Supreme Courts: Advancing State Constitutionalism by Publication Date: 2014Also available as an ebook.
Fifty-One Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law by Publication Date: 2018
Framed: America's Fifty-one Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance by Publication Date: 2012
New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law Dual Enforcement of Norms by Publication Date: 2010
State Constitutions of the United States by Publication Date: 1998Also available as an eBook through EBSCOhost
U.S. State Constitutions—Selected Articles Post-1980
Ronald K. L. Collins, Foreword: Reliance on State Constitutions—Beyond the "New Federalism," 8 U. Puget Sound L. Rev. vi (1985) (foreword to a symposium on the Washington State constitution)
Ronald K. L. Collins, Bills and Declarations of Rights Digest, in The American Bench: Judges of the Nation 2483-2655 (3d ed. 1985/86)(includes text of all states' bills and declarations of rights, as well as notes and comparative tables) (posted with permission of the author and the publisher, Forster-Long, LLC)
Christian G. Fritz, The American Constitutional Tradition Revisited: Preliminary Observations on State Constitution-Making in the Nineteenth-Century West, 25 Rutgers L. J. 945 (1994) (author's "definition of the American West includes the Far West, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain states, and even some of the Great Plains states. The greatest attention has been given to seven state constitutional conventions between 1849 and 1889 for which reports of the convention debates exist. These states are: California (1849 and 1878 conventions), Oregon (1857), Nevada (1864), South Dakota (1885 and 1889 conventions), Wyoming (1889), Idaho (1889), and North Dakota (1889)." p. 947).
Johanna Kalb, Evaluating International State Constitutionalism, 91 Wash. L. Rev. Online 141-56 (2016).
Hans A. Linde, What Is a Constitution, What Is Not, and Why Does It Matter?, 87 Or. L. Rev. 717 (2008).
Jeffrey A. Parness, American State Constitutional Equalities, 45 Gonz. L. Rev. 773 (2010).
Pierre Schlag, Framers Intent: The Illegitimate Uses of History, 8 U. Puget Sound L. Rev. 283 (1985).
Hugh D. Spitzer and Charles W. Johnson, Theme and Variations, 21 Seattle U. L. Rev . 997 (1998) (reviewing Robert F. Williams, State Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (2d ed. 1993)).
G. Alan Tarr, Popular Constitutionalism and Its Enemies, 91 Wash. L. Rev. Online 57-90 (2016).
Mary Whisner, Fifty More Constitutions, 104 Law Libr. J. 331 (2012).