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Original Intent: Does The Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Incarceration?, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 1998

Original Intent: Does The Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Incarceration?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Imperfect Death Penalty Not Acceptable, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 1998

Imperfect Death Penalty Not Acceptable, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Constitutionalizing Kwik-E-Mart, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 1998

Constitutionalizing Kwik-E-Mart, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Deliberative Democracy, Overlapping Consensus, And Same-Sex Marriage, Linda C. Mcclain Mar 1998

Deliberative Democracy, Overlapping Consensus, And Same-Sex Marriage, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

A pressing concern in political and constitutional theory is how to construct a model of justification in law and politics that offers methods for securing agreement and social cooperation in the face of moral pluralism. A common goal of this work is to elaborate the requirements of deliberative democracy, that is, a model of democratic self-government that "asks citizens and officials to justify public policy by giving reasons that can be accepted by those who are bound by it."' Two fundamental questions are: (1) are there any limits to the grounds to which citizens may appeal or the reasons that …


Establishing A Federal Constitutional Right To A Healthy Environment In Us And In Our Posterity, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1998

Establishing A Federal Constitutional Right To A Healthy Environment In Us And In Our Posterity, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


The Justice Who Wouldn't Be Lutheran: Toward Borrowing The Wisdom Of Faith Traditions, Marie A. Failinger Jan 1998

The Justice Who Wouldn't Be Lutheran: Toward Borrowing The Wisdom Of Faith Traditions, Marie A. Failinger

Cleveland State Law Review

Only a few legal scholars have attempted to work out what jurisprudence might look like if lawmakers and judges took their religious world-views seriously-and explicitly-in their work, in a way respectful of "the fact of pluralism." My task is to imagine the concrete case: what a judge's jurisprudence might look like if a judge considered the wisdom of his own religious tradition in constitutional cases. This article explores broad jurisprudential themes and specific First Amendment and social welfare opinions of Justice William Rehnquist, who for some years has been a member of a Lutheran congregation, my own denomination. While Justice …


The Relevance Of Religion To A Lawyer's Work: Legal Ethics, Leslie C. Griffin Jan 1998

The Relevance Of Religion To A Lawyer's Work: Legal Ethics, Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

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