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Does The Second Amendment Protect Firearms Commerce?, David B. Kopel Apr 2104

Does The Second Amendment Protect Firearms Commerce?, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

The Second Amendment protects the operation of businesses which provide Second Amendment services, including gun stores. Although lower federal courts have split on the issue, the right of firearms commerce is demonstrated by the original history of the Second Amendment, confirmed by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, and consistent with the Court's precedents on other individual rights.


How Do We Know When Political Societies Change?, Peter Aschenbrenner Jan 2104

How Do We Know When Political Societies Change?, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Predicates, features, attributes and properties of a system are liable to change. How does the change get marked down? For this purpose what facet of a system should command our attention? Any system worth the name, Our Constitutional Logic argues, is aware of its own standing in civil society. OCL considers the issues raised.


Disaggregating Corpus Christi: The Illiberal Implications Of Hobby Lobby's Right To Free Exercise, Katharine Jackson Sep 2016

Disaggregating Corpus Christi: The Illiberal Implications Of Hobby Lobby's Right To Free Exercise, Katharine Jackson

Katharine Jackson

This paper first examines and critiques the group rights to religious exercise derived from the three ontologies of the corporation suggested by different legal conceptions of corporate personhood often invoked by Courts. Finding the implicated groups rights inimical to individual religious freedom, the paper then presents an argument as to why a discourse of intra-corporate toleration and voluntariness does a better job at protecting religious liberty.


James Wilson And The Moral Foundations Of Popular Sovereignty, Ian C. Bartrum Apr 2016

James Wilson And The Moral Foundations Of Popular Sovereignty, Ian C. Bartrum

Ian C Bartrum

This paper explores the moral philosophy underlying the constitutional doctrine of popular sovereignty. In particular, it focuses on the Scottish sentimentalism that informed James Wilson’s understanding of that doctrine. Wilson, a transplanted Scotsman, was perhaps the nation’s preeminent lawyer in the middle 1780s. He was one of the most important delegates to the Constitutional Convention, one of the nation’s first law professors, and served as Associate Justice on the first Supreme Court. In these capacities, he developed the most sophisticated and coherent account of popular sovereignty among the founding generation. My initial effort is to enrich our understanding of Wilson’s …


From Baby M To Baby M(Anji): Regulating International Surrogacy Agreements, Yehezkel Margalit Jan 2016

From Baby M To Baby M(Anji): Regulating International Surrogacy Agreements, Yehezkel Margalit

Hezi Margalit

In 1985, when Kim Cotton became Britain’s first commercial surrogate mother, Europe was exposed to the issue of surrogacy for the first time on a large scale. Three years later, in 1988, the famous case of Baby M drew the attention of the American public to surrogacy as well. These two cases implicated fundamental ethical and legal issues regarding domestic surrogacy and triggered a fierce debate about motherhood, child-bearing, and the relationship between procreation, science and commerce. These two cases exemplified the debate regarding domestic surrogacy - a debate that has now been raging for decades. Contrary to the well-known …


Reflexiones Jurídicas Sobre El Atentado Contra Juan Pablo Ii A La Luz Del Debido Proceso.®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo Dec 2015

Reflexiones Jurídicas Sobre El Atentado Contra Juan Pablo Ii A La Luz Del Debido Proceso.®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

¿Qué sentido tiene que la oficial americana inculpe a un musulmán de un ilícito que posiblemente no cometió? ¿Qué sentido tiene generar un conflicto con los musulmanes, si la Santa Sede mantiene un diálogo interreligioso, respetuoso y pacífico con los musulmanes?


The Commander In Chief's Authority To Combat Climate Change, Mark P. Nevitt Dec 2015

The Commander In Chief's Authority To Combat Climate Change, Mark P. Nevitt

Mark P Nevitt

Climate change is the world’s greatest environmental threat. And it is increasingly understood as a threat to domestic and international peace and security. In recognition of this threat, the President has taken the initiative to prepare for climate change’s impact – in some cases drawing sharp objections from Congress. While both the President and Congress have certain constitutional authorities to address the national security threat posed by climate change, the precise contours of their overlapping powers are unclear. As Commander in Chief, the President has the constitutional authority to repel sudden attacks and take care that the laws are faithfully …


Direitos Sociais, Estado De Direito E Desigualdade: Reflexões Sobre As Críticas À Judicialização Dos Direitos Prestacionais, Jane Reis Gonçalves Pereira Nov 2015

Direitos Sociais, Estado De Direito E Desigualdade: Reflexões Sobre As Críticas À Judicialização Dos Direitos Prestacionais, Jane Reis Gonçalves Pereira

Jane Reis Gonçalves Pereira

A tensão ancestral entre democracia e poder judicial é aparentemente acentuada quando se trata de conferir efetividade aos direitos sociais. O presente artigo discute as principais críticas à implementação de direitos positivos pelo Poder Judiciário. Primeiramente, é apresentada uma revisão dos tópicos mais importantes na dogmática sobre os direitos sociais. Em sequência, busca-se enfrentar as objeções postas à ampliação do papel do Judiciário na realização desses direitos, sem deixar de reconhecê-las como referenciais importantes para a construção de um modelo interpretativo adequado. A hipótese central é de que as críticas à intervenção do Judiciário em políticas públicas sobrevalorizam as falhas …


7 Things You Need To Know About: Constitutional Law, Corey A. Ciocchetti Nov 2015

7 Things You Need To Know About: Constitutional Law, Corey A. Ciocchetti

Corey A Ciocchetti

These slides cover the 7 most important things you need to know about Constitutional Law - especially as it relates to business. Topics covered include the Supremacy Clause & preemption, Commercial Speech & the First Amendment, the Commerce Clause, the Bill of Rights and Constitutional History.


7 Things You Need To Know About: The American Court System, Corey A. Ciocchetti Nov 2015

7 Things You Need To Know About: The American Court System, Corey A. Ciocchetti

Corey A Ciocchetti

These presentation slides cover the 7 most important things you need to know about the American Court System. They cover: personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, removal, change of venue, and the steps in bringing a lawsuit.


Can The Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles Of 2003 Serve As Aneffective Framework Forsafeguarding Democracy, Centre Institute For Public Policy Research (Cippr) Oct 2015

Can The Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles Of 2003 Serve As Aneffective Framework Forsafeguarding Democracy, Centre Institute For Public Policy Research (Cippr)

Centre Institute for Public Policy Research (CIPPR)

The Latimer House Guidelines were written at the start of the new millennium some 11 years ago. After the Guidelines, other supporting documents have been churned out by the Commonwealth. The Guidelines present a framework for achieving separation of powers to enhance honesty, probity and accountability in government in Commonwealth countries. The outstanding question however is how well these guidelines do invoke Monsieur Baron de Montesquieu’s spirit in view of the current challenges faced by governments in Commonwealth countries? Do the guidelines present an effective framework for safeguarding democracy and the rule of law in the States concerned? These questions, …


El Estado De Justicia, Raul Chaname Orbe Sep 2015

El Estado De Justicia, Raul Chaname Orbe

Raúl Chanamé Orbe

No abstract provided.


La Carta De Jamaica: A 200 Años De Un Programa Inconcluso Promoviendo Un Nuevo Régimen Continental, Raul Chaname Orbe Sep 2015

La Carta De Jamaica: A 200 Años De Un Programa Inconcluso Promoviendo Un Nuevo Régimen Continental, Raul Chaname Orbe

Raúl Chanamé Orbe

No abstract provided.


Linchamiento Y Flagrancia, Raul Chaname Orbe Sep 2015

Linchamiento Y Flagrancia, Raul Chaname Orbe

Raúl Chanamé Orbe

No abstract provided.


No Hay Delito De Opinión, Raul Chaname Orbe Sep 2015

No Hay Delito De Opinión, Raul Chaname Orbe

Raúl Chanamé Orbe

No abstract provided.


Clemency 2.0, Paul J. Larkin Jr. Aug 2015

Clemency 2.0, Paul J. Larkin Jr.

Paul J Larkin Jr.

A trope heard throughout criminal justice circles today is that the system is a dystopia. Although most of the discussion and proposed remedies have centered on sentencing or release, this article focuses on clemency, which has become a controversial subject. The last few Presidents have rarely exercised their pardon power or have used it for ignoble reasons. The former withers the clemency power; the latter besmirches it. President Obama sought to kick start the clemency process through the Clemency Project 2014, which sought to provide relief to the 30,000 crack cocaine offenders unable to take advantage of the prospective-only nature …


Replay That Tune: Defending Bakke On Stare Decisis Grounds, Charles Adside Iii Aug 2015

Replay That Tune: Defending Bakke On Stare Decisis Grounds, Charles Adside Iii

Charles adside III

No abstract provided.


Take It To The Limit: The Illegal Regulation Prohibiting The Take Of Any Threatened Species Under The Endangered Species Act, Jonathan Wood Aug 2015

Take It To The Limit: The Illegal Regulation Prohibiting The Take Of Any Threatened Species Under The Endangered Species Act, Jonathan Wood

Jonathan Wood

The Endangered Species Act forbids the “take” – any activity that adversely affects – any member of an endangered species, but only endangered species. The statute also provides for the listing of threatened species, i.e. species that may become endangered, but protects them only by requiring agencies to consider the impacts of their projects on them. Shortly after the statute was adopted, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service reversed Congress’ policy choice by adopting a regulation that forbids the take of any threatened species. The regulation is not authorized by the Endangered Species Act, but …


The Lost Due Process Doctrines, Paul J. Larkin Jr. Aug 2015

The Lost Due Process Doctrines, Paul J. Larkin Jr.

Paul J Larkin Jr.

In order to render manageable the doctrinal development of the Due Process Clause, the Supreme Court over the last fifty years has attempted to fit its decisions into one of two distinct categories: procedural requirements that the government must satisfy before depriving someone of life, liberty, or property, and substantive limitations on exactly what deprivations the government may accomplish. Unfortunately, neither the law nor life can be so easily classified. The Court has decided numerous cases that defy its recent attempts to divide Gaul into two parts, not three (or more). Several due process doctrines seem to have been isolated …


Hegelian Dialectical Analysis Of United States Election Laws, Charles E. A. Lincoln Iv Aug 2015

Hegelian Dialectical Analysis Of United States Election Laws, Charles E. A. Lincoln Iv

Charles E. A. Lincoln IV

This Article uses the dialectical ideas of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1833) in application to the progression of United States voting laws since the founding. This analysis can be used to interpret past progression of voting rights in the US as well as a provoking way to predict the future trends in US voting rights. First, Hegel’s dialectical method is established as a major premise. Second, the general accepted history of United States voting laws from the 1770s to the current day is laid out as a minor premise. Third, the major premise of Hegel’s dialectical method weaves …


Table Annexed To Article: The Text Of The Standing Orders Of The Federal Convention: Jackson’S And Madison’S Texts Surveyed, Peter Aschenbrenner Aug 2015

Table Annexed To Article: The Text Of The Standing Orders Of The Federal Convention: Jackson’S And Madison’S Texts Surveyed, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Drawing on Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Vol. 1, Our Constitutional Logic has reconciled the differences between the text of the standing Orders as presented in the text of William Jackson, the convention’s secretary, and James Madison, the convention’s semi-official reporter, both as edited by Max Farrand. This text will appear in Basic Texts in the Founding of Parliamentary Science Originating from the United Kingdom and United States (in MR Text Format), 2 OCL 136_5; in turn, OCL is producing the first concordance of these texts in Founding the Science of Parliamentary Procedure, 1785-1789: Basic Texts in …


Thomas Jefferson’S First Inaugural Address In Mr Text Format (March 4, 1801) With Observations On The Tyranny Of The Majority And Tyranny Of The Minority, Peter Aschenbrenner Aug 2015

Thomas Jefferson’S First Inaugural Address In Mr Text Format (March 4, 1801) With Observations On The Tyranny Of The Majority And Tyranny Of The Minority, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Our Constitutional Logic presents the 1,724 words of Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1801. The table annexed hereto presents this work in MR Text format. For OCL’s present purpose TJ’s invocation of TOM-TOM – the mathematical logic which supplies no convenient repose between the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of the minority – is drawn to the reader’s attention.


La Garantía De La Audiencia Previa En El Procedimiento Administrativo, Jancarlos Jair Vega Lugo Aug 2015

La Garantía De La Audiencia Previa En El Procedimiento Administrativo, Jancarlos Jair Vega Lugo

Jancarlos Jair Vega Lugo

No abstract provided.


The High Price Of Poverty: A Study Of How The Majority Of Current Court System Procedures For Collecting Court Costs And Fees, As Well As Fines, Have Failed To Adhere To Established Precedent And The Constitutional Guarantees They Advocate., Trevor J. Calligan Jul 2015

The High Price Of Poverty: A Study Of How The Majority Of Current Court System Procedures For Collecting Court Costs And Fees, As Well As Fines, Have Failed To Adhere To Established Precedent And The Constitutional Guarantees They Advocate., Trevor J. Calligan

Trevor J Calligan

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Written Constitution: A Short Analysis Of Warren Court, Thiago Luis Sombra Jul 2015

Beyond The Written Constitution: A Short Analysis Of Warren Court, Thiago Luis Sombra

Thiago Luís Santos Sombra

This essay propose an analysis about how Warren Court became one of the most particular in American History by confronting Jim Crow law, especially by applying the Bill of Rights. In this essay, we propose an analysis of how complex the unwritten Constitution is. Cases like Brown vs. Board of Education will be analyzed from a different point of view to understand the methods of the Court.


Beyond The Written Constitution: A Short Analysis Of Warren Court, Thiago Luis Santos Sombra Jul 2015

Beyond The Written Constitution: A Short Analysis Of Warren Court, Thiago Luis Santos Sombra

Thiago Luís Santos Sombra

This essay propose an analysis about how Warren Court became one of the most particular in American History by confronting Jim Crow law, especially by applying the Bill of Rights. In this essay, we propose an analysis of how complex the unwritten Constitution is. Cases like Brown vs. Board of Education will be analyzed from a different point of view to understand the methods of the Court.


A Call For An Overhaul Of The U.S. Federal Court System, Huhnkie Lee Jul 2015

A Call For An Overhaul Of The U.S. Federal Court System, Huhnkie Lee

Huhnkie Lee

No abstract provided.


Reflexiones Con Respecto Al Equilibrio De Poderes Y Los Procesos Contra Aforados.®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo Jun 2015

Reflexiones Con Respecto Al Equilibrio De Poderes Y Los Procesos Contra Aforados.®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

¿Puede Ernesto Samper pizano recibir dinero del cartel de Cali para financiar la campaña presidencial? ¿Puede el congreso precluir la investigación contra el dirigente liberal? ¿Cuál era el interés de la Primera Dama de la Nación de ese entonces en unos predios que administraban entidades públicas?


La Interpretación Constitucional De Los Contratos®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo Jun 2015

La Interpretación Constitucional De Los Contratos®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

La Interpretación de los Contratos públicos y privados desde el constitucionalismo moderno. ¿Cómo hace el empleador o la ( parte redactora del contrato) para no generar pruebas incriminatorias de los vicios del consentimiento cuando obliga al trabajador , o, a la (parte adherente) a leer o firmar el contrato? ¿Se puede despedir a un trabajador sin indemnizar los perjuicios, y desconociendo los derechos de la tercera edad, de la madre cabeza de hogar, o de los derechos de las personas desaventajadas o incapacitadas?¿ Qué dice el bloque de constitucionalidad para los ignorantes y directivos de empresas de educación superior?


Casos De Hermenéútica A La La Luz Del Estatuto De La Corte Penal Internacional®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo Jun 2015

Casos De Hermenéútica A La La Luz Del Estatuto De La Corte Penal Internacional®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

En este ensayo se abordará el abuso del poder, el prevaricato por acción, el riesgo del robo digital de dinero a las empresas del sector privado por federales de la embajada americana (microsoft); el fuero militar de oficiales con antecedentes disciplinarios y penales. ¿ Se puede hablar de democracia cuando existen una política fascista?; ¿"que piensan los demócratas que el DAS coloque micrófonos a los congresistas del M-19?" ¿El TLC con Estados Unidos está vigente?, ¿hubo espionaje de la oficial americana en los intereses colombianos en el TLC.? ¿US Marschalls (Procuradores o víctima de delitos federales o crímenes de estado …