Franita Tolson

Publications

• The "Independent" State Legislature in Republican Theory
  10 TEX. A & M L. REV. 549 (2023) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2023
• Enforcing the Political Constitution
  74 STAN. L. REV. (2022) · Stanford Law Review · 2022
• Countering the Real Countermajoritarian Difficulty
  109 CAL. L. REV. 2381 (2021) · California Law Review · 2021
• What is "Appropriate" Legislation?: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Redundancy of the Reconstruction Amendments
  73 ARK. L. REV. 111 (2020) · Arkansas Law Review · 2020

• Practical Equality and the Limits of Second Best Strategies for Justice
  34 CONST. COMMENT. 477 (2019) · Constitutional Commentary · 2019
• Election Law “Federalism” and the Limits of the Antidiscrimination Framework
  59 WM. & MARY L. REV. 2211 (2018) · William & Mary Law Review · 2018
• The Law of Democracy at a Crossroads: Reflecting on Fifty Years of Voting Rights and the Judicial Regulation of the Political Thicket
  43 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 345 (2016) · Florida State University Law Review · 2016
• The Constitutional Structure of Voting Rights Enforcement
  89 WASH. L. REV. 379 (2014) · Washington Law Review · 2014
• The Union as a Safeguard against Faction: Congressional Gridlock as State Empowerment
  88 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2267 (2013) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2013
• Second-Order Diverse in Name Only?: Sovereign Authority in Disaggregated Institutions
  48 TULSA L. REV. 455 (2013) · Tulsa Law Review · 2013
• Benign Partisanship
  88 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 395 (2012) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2012
• Reinventing Sovereignty?: Federalsim as a Constraint on the Voting Rights Act
  65 VAND. L. REV. 1195 (2012) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2012
• Partisan Gerrymandering as a Safeguard of Federalism
  2010 UTAH L. REV. (2010) · Utah Law Review · 2010

• Increasing the Quantity and the Quality of the African-American Vote: Lessons for 2008 and Beyond
  10 BERKELEY J. AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y 313 (2008) · Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy · 2008