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The Use Of Legislative History In A System Of Separated Powers, Jonathan R. Siegel
The Use Of Legislative History In A System Of Separated Powers, Jonathan R. Siegel
Vanderbilt Law Review
Legislative history is the ultimate bugaboo of the textualists-those judges and scholars who assert that in statutory interpretation, "[w]e do not inquire what the legislature meant; we ask only what the statute means." The textualists have unleashed argument after argument against legislative history. Textualists assert that judicial use of legislative history seeks a collective legislative intent that does not exist and that would not be law if it did exist. They claim that congressional committees deliberately manipulate legislative history in order to influence statutory interpretation. They argue that legislative history is more ambiguous than the statutes it supposedly clarifies, that …
Language Matters, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 163 (2000), Jane B. Baron
Language Matters, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 163 (2000), Jane B. Baron
UIC Law Review
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History Unbecoming, Becoming History, Toni M. Massaro
History Unbecoming, Becoming History, Toni M. Massaro
Michigan Law Review
The last few decades have seen a torrent of legal commentary supporting gay equality and attacking the punishment, failure to protect, and refusal to affirm gay conduct and identity. William Eskridge, a prominent voice in this fin-de-siecle literature, now draws together and expands on his previous work in Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. Though far more successful in shaping the uses of the past than in showing the way to the future, the book instructs even where it fails. It augurs a century that could well witness the end of official discrimination against gay individuals, and the relegation …
The Pullman Strike: Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 583 (2000), William J. Adelman, Gerald E. Berendt, Melvin G. Holli
The Pullman Strike: Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 583 (2000), William J. Adelman, Gerald E. Berendt, Melvin G. Holli
UIC Law Review
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