Montana Civics: How Your State Government Works

by bam

A practical, non-partisan guide to how the state of Montana governs itself, and how you take part where you live. Montana rewrote its constitution in 1972 into one of the most distinctive in the country: it guarantees a 'right to a clean and healthful environment,' unusually strong individual privacy rights, and a right to know and to participate in government. You'll also learn Montana's part-time Legislature of 50 senators and 100 representatives, which meets only every other year for 90 days; its plural executive; its strong direct democracy; its nonpartisan elected judiciary; and its 56 counties. Time-sensitive facts are flagged, pointing to sosmt.gov. Cited to Montana's own official sources (leg.mt.gov, sosmt.gov, courts.mt.gov).