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Putting A Stop To Sprawl: State Intervention As A Tool For Growth Management, Lesley R. Attkisson
Putting A Stop To Sprawl: State Intervention As A Tool For Growth Management, Lesley R. Attkisson
Vanderbilt Law Review
"Sprawl is America's most lethal disease." Although such a statement appears exaggerated upon first consideration, both the scope of urban sprawl and its attendant consequences support the suggestion that sprawl threatens the vitality of the United States. For example, in California, sprawl has reached such a dangerous level that one of the nation's largest banks publicly warned of the potential devastation: "Sprawl has created enormous costs that California can no longer afford. Ironically, unchecked sprawl has shifted from an engine of California's growth to a force that now threatens to inhibit growth and degrade the quality of our life." The …
The Captures Clause, Ingrid Wuerth
The Captures Clause, Ingrid Wuerth
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The Captures Clause of the United States Constitution gives Congress the power to "make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water." A variety of courts, scholars, politicians and others have recently cited the Clause to support conflicting arguments about the scope of Congress’s power to initiate and prosecute war. Some claim or assume that the Captures Clause gives Congress power over the taking and detention of people, while others conclude that the power is limited to property only. Similarly, those who view Congress’s power broadly understand the Captures Clause as giving Congress the power to determine what (or whom) may …