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Constitutional Newspeak: Learning To Love The Affordable Care Act Decision, A. Christopher Bryant
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning To Love The Affordable Care Act Decision, A. Christopher Bryant
Aaron Christopher Bryant
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning to Love the Affordable Care Act Decision In his classic dystopian novel, 1984, George Orwell imagines a world in which language is regularly contorted to mean its opposite – as in the waging of war by the Ministry of Peace and infliction of torture by the Ministry of Love. A core claim of Orwell’s was that such abuse of language – which in his novel he labeled “Newspeak” -- would ultimately channel thought. Whatever the merits of this claim as a theory of linguistics, constitutional developments too recent to be called history demonstrate that as a practical …
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning To Love The Affordable Care Act Decision, A. Christopher Bryant
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning To Love The Affordable Care Act Decision, A. Christopher Bryant
Aaron Christopher Bryant
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning to Love the Affordable Care Act Decision In his classic dystopian novel, 1984, George Orwell imagines a world in which language is regularly contorted to mean its opposite – as in the waging of war by the Ministry of Peace and infliction of torture by the Ministry of Love. A core claim of Orwell’s was that such abuse of language – which in his novel he labeled “Newspeak” -- would ultimately channel thought. Whatever the merits of this claim as a theory of linguistics, constitutional developments too recent to be called history demonstrate that as a practical …
Foreign Law As Legislative Fact In Constitutional Cases, Aaron Christopher Bryant
Foreign Law As Legislative Fact In Constitutional Cases, Aaron Christopher Bryant
Aaron Christopher Bryant
Do we really need another law review article about foreign law in constitutional interpretation? In fact we do. In the vast literature on the subject, a fundamental point has received scant attention. In the recent rulings that have stoked the present controversy, the Supreme Court has employed foreign law not as law, but rather merely as evidence of a legislative fact made relevant by domestic constitutional law. Commentators, however, have largely directed their attention to the merits of a genuine constitutional comparativism, in which foreign law serves as a model for the creation of domestic constitutional doctrine. Many commentators have …