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December 20, 2012: No, God Has Not Called Them Home, Bruce Ledewitz
December 20, 2012: No, God Has Not Called Them Home, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No, God Has Not Called Them Home“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 16, 2012: Heller Is Good News For Gun Control, Bruce Ledewitz
December 16, 2012: Heller Is Good News For Gun Control, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Heller is Good News for Gun Control“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 12, 2012: Bringing Wal-Mart Jobs To Michigan, Bruce Ledewitz
December 12, 2012: Bringing Wal-Mart Jobs To Michigan, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Bringing Wal-Mart Jobs to Michigan“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 8, 2012: Another Challenge From Religious Conscience, Bruce Ledewitz
December 8, 2012: Another Challenge From Religious Conscience, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Another Challenge From Religious Conscience“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
December 5, 2012: Is Abortion Next?, Bruce Ledewitz
December 5, 2012: Is Abortion Next?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Is Abortion Next?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Line-Item Veto: The Best Response When Congress Passes One Spending “Bill” A Year, L. Gordon Crovitz
The Line-Item Veto: The Best Response When Congress Passes One Spending “Bill” A Year, L. Gordon Crovitz
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Montesquieu's Theory Of Government And The Framing Of The American Constitution , Matthew P. Bergman
Montesquieu's Theory Of Government And The Framing Of The American Constitution , Matthew P. Bergman
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
November 27, 2012: A Compromise On The Contraception Mandate?, Bruce Ledewitz
November 27, 2012: A Compromise On The Contraception Mandate?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “A Compromise on the Contraception Mandate?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
November 14, 2012: No, Corporations Do Not Have Religious Rights, Bruce Ledewitz
November 14, 2012: No, Corporations Do Not Have Religious Rights, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No, Corporations Do Not Have Religious Rights“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
California's Constitutional Right To Privacy, J. Clark Kelso
California's Constitutional Right To Privacy, J. Clark Kelso
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Separation Of Powers Doctrine On The Modern Supreme Court And Four Doctrinal Approaches To Judicial Decision-Making, R. Randall Kelso
Separation Of Powers Doctrine On The Modern Supreme Court And Four Doctrinal Approaches To Judicial Decision-Making, R. Randall Kelso
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
November 9, 2012: Time To Repeal Campaign Contribution Limits, Bruce Ledewitz
November 9, 2012: Time To Repeal Campaign Contribution Limits, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Time to Repeal Campaign Contribution Limits“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Cherokee Nation: A Question Of Sovereignty, Lydia Magyar
The Cherokee Nation: A Question Of Sovereignty, Lydia Magyar
Senior Honors Theses
The history of the Cherokee people with the advent of white settlers in North America is a sad one. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the ‘new world’ the Cherokee people were free to live and conduct their relations with each other and with other tribes as they saw fit. With the emergence of foreign hegemony over Native soil followed the suppression and eventual removal of the Cherokee people from their homeland where they had resided for hundreds of years to a reserved area where they would be out of the way of white progression. This thesis proposes to …
August 24, 2012: Abortion And Rape, Bruce Ledewitz
August 24, 2012: Abortion And Rape, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Abortion and Rape“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
A Look At The Establishment Clause Through The Prism Of Religious Perspectives: Religious Majorities, Religious Minorities, And Nonbelievers, Samuel J. Levine
A Look At The Establishment Clause Through The Prism Of Religious Perspectives: Religious Majorities, Religious Minorities, And Nonbelievers, Samuel J. Levine
Samuel J. Levine
This article traces the Court’s Establishment Clause jurisprudence through several decades, examining a number of landmark cases through the prism of religious minority perspectives. In so doing, the Article aims to demonstrate the significance of religious perspectives in the development of both the doctrine and rhetoric of the Establishment Clause. The Article then turns to the current state of the Establishment Clause, expanding upon these themes through a close look at the 2004 and 2005 cases Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, Van Orden v. Perry, and McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. The article concludes …
Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles To Cross-Border Cap-And-Trade,, Shelley Welton
Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles To Cross-Border Cap-And-Trade,, Shelley Welton
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
July 1, 2012: The Significance Of The Obamacare Decision, Bruce Ledewitz
July 1, 2012: The Significance Of The Obamacare Decision, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Significance of the Obamacare Decision“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 8, 2012: How Do The Draft Cases Aid In Resolution Of The Culture Wars?, Bruce Ledewitz
June 8, 2012: How Do The Draft Cases Aid In Resolution Of The Culture Wars?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “How Do the Draft Cases Aid in Resolution of the Culture Wars?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 2, 2012: Massachusetts V. United States Department Of Health And Human Services, Bruce Ledewitz
June 2, 2012: Massachusetts V. United States Department Of Health And Human Services, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ MASSACHUSETTS v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
May 30, 2012: Seeger—An Extraordinary Case, Bruce Ledewitz
May 30, 2012: Seeger—An Extraordinary Case, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Seeger—an Extraordinary Case“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
May 15, 2012: Religion At Occupy Wall Street, Bruce Ledewitz
May 15, 2012: Religion At Occupy Wall Street, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Religion at Occupy Wall Street“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Avoiding Independent Agency Armageddon, Kent H. Barnett
Avoiding Independent Agency Armageddon, Kent H. Barnett
Scholarly Works
In Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Congress’ use of two layers of tenure protection to shield Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) members from the President’s removal. The SEC could appoint and remove PCAOB members. An implied tenure-protection provision protected the SEC from the President’s at-will removal. And a statutory tenure-protection provision protected PCAOB members from the SEC’s at-will removal. The Court held that these “tiered” tenure protections unconstitutionally impinged upon the President’s removal power because they prevented the President from holding the SEC responsible for PCAOB’s actions in the same …
Deciphering A Duality: Understanding Conflicting Standards In Sex & Violence Censorship In U.S. Obscenity Law, Rushabh P. Bhakta
Deciphering A Duality: Understanding Conflicting Standards In Sex & Violence Censorship In U.S. Obscenity Law, Rushabh P. Bhakta
Political Science Honors Projects
This research examines the division in US obscenity law that enables strict sex censorship while overlooking violence. By investigating the social and legal development of obscenity in US culture, I argue that the contemporary duality in obscenity censorship standards arose from a family of forces consisting of faith, economy, and identity in early American history. While sexuality ingrained itself in American culture as a commodity in need of regulation, violence was decentralized from the state and proliferated. This phenomenon led to a prioritization of suppressing sexual speech over violent speech. This paper traces the emergence this duality and its source.
The Implications Of Snyder V. Phelps, Meghan White
The Implications Of Snyder V. Phelps, Meghan White
Honors College
Snyder v. Phelps, a recent U.S. Supreme Court Case, appears to have had a vast but infrequently discussed impact on First Amendment law. In particular, the case changed the way Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress claims are decided. Snyder v. Phelps shifted the manner in which speech is analyzed away from the method of analysis present in Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell. Rather than focusing mainly on what the status is of the target of speech, Snyder requires one first, and possibly only, look to the dominant thrust of the speech. If the dominant thrust of speech is on a …
April 20, 2012: Back To The Bishops, Bruce Ledewitz
April 20, 2012: Back To The Bishops, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Back to the Bishops“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 4, 2012: Samuel Moyn’S Questions About Church, State, And The Crisis In American Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz
April 4, 2012: Samuel Moyn’S Questions About Church, State, And The Crisis In American Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Samuel Moyn’s Questions about Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 30, 2012: A Fundamental Rights Case Masquerading As A Commerce Clause Case, Bruce Ledewitz
March 30, 2012: A Fundamental Rights Case Masquerading As A Commerce Clause Case, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “A Fundamental Rights Case Masquerading as a Commerce Clause Case“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
March 11, 2012: Are Any Other Pro-Life People Outraged And Embarrassed?, Bruce Ledewitz
March 11, 2012: Are Any Other Pro-Life People Outraged And Embarrassed?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Are Any Other Pro-Life People Outraged and Embarrassed?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
February 16, 2012: Do Pacifists Have To Pay All Their Federal Taxes?, Bruce Ledewitz
February 16, 2012: Do Pacifists Have To Pay All Their Federal Taxes?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Do Pacifists Have to Pay All Their Federal Taxes?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
January 12, 2012: The New Foundations Of The Ministerial Exception, Bruce Ledewitz
January 12, 2012: The New Foundations Of The Ministerial Exception, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The New Foundations of the Ministerial Exception“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.