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Original Intent: Does The Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Incarceration?, Bruce Ledewitz
Original Intent: Does The Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Incarceration?, Bruce Ledewitz
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Imperfect Death Penalty Not Acceptable, Bruce Ledewitz
Imperfect Death Penalty Not Acceptable, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Constitutionalizing Kwik-E-Mart, Bruce Ledewitz
Constitutionalizing Kwik-E-Mart, Bruce Ledewitz
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Establishing A Federal Constitutional Right To A Healthy Environment In Us And In Our Posterity, Bruce Ledewitz
Establishing A Federal Constitutional Right To A Healthy Environment In Us And In Our Posterity, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Rethinking The Supreme Court’S Hands-Off Approach To Questions Of Religious Practice And Belief, Samuel J. Levine
Rethinking The Supreme Court’S Hands-Off Approach To Questions Of Religious Practice And Belief, Samuel J. Levine
Scholarly Works
In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has shown an increasing unwillingness to engage in deciding matters that relate to the interpretation of religious practice and belief. While the Justices have articulated valid concerns concerning these cases, courts should not allow these concerns to deter them from making decisions vital to the effective adjudication of Free Exercise and Establishment Clause cases. In fact, it appears that as a result of the Court's increasing refusal to consider carefully the religious questions central to many cases, the Court often tends to group together religious claims and practices, regardless of the relative …
Power And The Subject Of Religion, Kurt T. Lash
Power And The Subject Of Religion, Kurt T. Lash
Law Faculty Publications
Under the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Nevertheless, congressional actors have on occasion enacted laws that expressly make religion the subject of legislation. Many scholars justify these laws on the grounds that Congress at the time of the Founding had an implied power to legislate on religion if necessary and proper to an enumerated end.
Professor Lash argues that the "implied power" theory cannot withstand historical scrutiny. Whatever "implied power" arguments may have emanated from the original Constitution, those arguments were foreclosed by the adoption of the …