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Lyman Trumbull: Author Of The Thirteenth Amendment, Author Of The Civil Rights Act, And The First Second Amendment Lawyer, David B. Kopel
Lyman Trumbull: Author Of The Thirteenth Amendment, Author Of The Civil Rights Act, And The First Second Amendment Lawyer, David B. Kopel
David B Kopel
Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull is not well-known today, but he is one of the "Founding Sons" who transformed the nation and the Constitution before, during, and after the Civil War. He wrote the Thirteenth Amendment, the first Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and the Civil Rights Act. He sponsored the first federal statutes which actually freed slaves. As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and later as a civil rights attorney, he did more to protect Second Amendment rights--including taking a test case to the U.S. Supreme Court (Presser v. Illinois)--than did any other lawyer or legislator in the century after Jefferson …
Cross, Crucifix, Culture: An Approach To The Constitutional Meaning Of Confessional Symbols, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Pasquale Annicchino
Cross, Crucifix, Culture: An Approach To The Constitutional Meaning Of Confessional Symbols, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Pasquale Annicchino
Frederick Mark Gedicks
In the United States and Europe the constitutionality of government displays of confessional symbols depends on whether the symbols also have nonconfessional secular meaning (in the U.S.) or whether the confessional meaning is somehow absent (in Europe). Yet both the United States Supreme Court (USSCt) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) lack a workable approach to determining whether secular meaning is present or confessional meaning absent. The problem is that the government can nearly always articulate a possible secular meaning for the confessional symbols that it uses, or argue that the confessional meaning is passive and ineffective. What …
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
John Barlow
No abstract provided.
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
John Barlow
No abstract provided.
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
John Barlow
No abstract provided.
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
Unringing The Bell: The Government Speech Doctrine And Publicly-Funded Art, John Barlow
John Barlow
No abstract provided.