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Welfare Servitude, Julie Nice
Welfare Servitude, Julie Nice
Julie A. Nice
In Welfare Servitude, Professor Nice considers whether mandating work as a condition for receiving welfare violates the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of involuntary servitude and also explores the recurring intersection between race and class. She first describes the redoubling of efforts to increase enforcement of welfare work requirements once racial minorities were no longer excluded from receiving welfare benefits. Next she analyzes judicial decisions construing what constitutes involuntary servitude, including historic cases addressing indentured servitude, the padrone system, peonage, and the surety system, as well as modern cases challenging various welfare work requirements. Professor Nice distills three doctrinal types of involuntary …
Scrambling For Protection: The New Media And The First Amendment, Patrick Garry
Scrambling For Protection: The New Media And The First Amendment, Patrick Garry
Patrick M. Garry
In Scrambling for Protection, Patrick Garry asserts that such dramatic developments in electronic communications will radically change the way society communicates. Already, computer networks and bulletin boards are creating, in essence, electronic editorial pages on which people can register their viewpoints. Indeed, the new and increasingly interactive media promise to more significantly involve the public in the process of social communication. This concept of change lies at the heart of Scrambling for Protection. Garry offers models and guidelines for constitutionally redefining the press and asserts that, as both the press and the First Amendment move away from an apparently exclusive …
Affirmative Action And Judicial Incoherence, Robert C. Power
Affirmative Action And Judicial Incoherence, Robert C. Power
Robert C Power
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The Quest For The Common Good: Neutrality And Deliberative Democracy In Sunstein's Conception Of American Constitutionalism, Robert Justin Lipkin
The Quest For The Common Good: Neutrality And Deliberative Democracy In Sunstein's Conception Of American Constitutionalism, Robert Justin Lipkin
Robert Justin Lipkin
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Twenty-Five Years After Goldberg V. Kelly: Traveling From The Right Spot On The Wrong Road To The Wrong Place, Randy Lee
Randy Lee
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