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Taking Stock Of The Religion Clauses, John D. Inazu
Taking Stock Of The Religion Clauses, John D. Inazu
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After a few decades of relative quiet, the Supreme Court has in recent years focused once again on the religion clauses and related statutes.
Conflicting Reports: When Gun Rights Threaten Free Speech, Gregory P. Magarian
Conflicting Reports: When Gun Rights Threaten Free Speech, Gregory P. Magarian
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This Article catalogs and analyzes collisions between free speech and gun rights. The most important and hotly debated of those collisions is the clash between the First Amendment rights to assemble and speak in public political protests and the asserted Second Amendment right to carry firearms openly in public places. Beyond protests, public university students’ First Amendment rights to speak and learn clash with the asserted Second Amendment right to carry concealed weapons on university campuses; First Amendment interests in robust political deliberation clash with Second Amendment interests in promoting and securing the right to keep and bear arms; and …
Taming Uncivil Discourse, Gregory P. Magarian, James L. Gibson, Lee Epstein
Taming Uncivil Discourse, Gregory P. Magarian, James L. Gibson, Lee Epstein
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In an era of increasingly intense populist politics, a variety of issues of intergroup prejudice, discrimination, and conflict have moved center stage in American politics. Among these is “political correctness” and, in particular, what constitutes a legitimate discourse of political conflict and opposition. Yet the meaning of legitimate discourse is being turned on its head as some disparaged groups seek to reclaim, or re-appropriate, the slurs directed against them. Using a Supreme Court decision about whether “The Slants” – a band named after a traditional slur against Asians – can trademark its name, we test several hypotheses about re-appropriation processes, …