Abstract
"For a long time, the primary source of protection for individual rights has been the federal constitution. During the 1960s, the United States Supreme Court enforced the guarantees of the federal constitution against the states through the fourteenth amendment. Due to the expansive protections the federal constitution offered during those years, state constitutions and the protections they might offer were dormant. But as early as 1969, state courts were looking to their own constitutions to independently protect individual rights. Many saw this trend as a reaction to unpopular, conservative decisions of the Burger Court."
Recommended Citation
Marsden, Milo Steven
(1986)
"The Utah Supreme Court and the Utah StateConstitution,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1986:
No.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1986/iss2/4