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Respeaking The Bill Of Rights: A New Doctrine Of Incorporation, Kurt Lash
Respeaking The Bill Of Rights: A New Doctrine Of Incorporation, Kurt Lash
Indiana Law Journal
The incorporation of the Bill of Rights against the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment raises a host of textual, historical, and doctrinal difficulties. This is true even if (especially if) we accept the Fourteenth Amendment as having made the original Bill of Rights binding against the states. Does this mean we have two Bills of Rights, one applicable against the federal government with a “1791” meaning and a second applicable against the state governments with an “1868” meaning? Do 1791 understandings carry forward into the 1868 amendment? Or do 1868 understandings of the Bill of Rights carry backward …
Reciprocal Immunity, Colin Miller
Reciprocal Immunity, Colin Miller
Indiana Law Journal
This essay advances a reciprocal rights theory. It argues that the Constitution precludes statutes and rules from providing nonreciprocal benefits to the State when the lack of reciprocity interferes with the defendant’s ability to secure a fair trial, unless reciprocity would implicate a significant state interest. Therefore, unless a significant State interest is involved, a grant of immunity to a prosecution witness should trigger reciprocal immunity to a directly contradictory defense witness.
Incorporation Of The Establishment Clause Against The States: A Logical, Textual, And Historical Account, Frederick Mark Gedicks
Incorporation Of The Establishment Clause Against The States: A Logical, Textual, And Historical Account, Frederick Mark Gedicks
Indiana Law Journal
Incorporation of the Establishment Clause against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment is logically and textually impossible—so say most academics, a few lower-court judges, and a Supreme Court Justice. They maintain that because the Clause was originally understood as a structural limitation that protected state power against the federal government, it cannot restrain state power or fit within the Fourteenth Amendment texts that protect personal rights— indeed, that attempts to show that it does are laughable.
This purported incoherence and textual inconsistency enable anti-incorporation critics to avoid serious engagement of the anti-establishment dimensions of Reconstruction history. They also undermine the …
Bringing In The State: Toward A Constitutional Duty To Protect From Mob Violence, Susan S. Kuo
Bringing In The State: Toward A Constitutional Duty To Protect From Mob Violence, Susan S. Kuo
Indiana Law Journal
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Jack Rakove's Rendition Of Original Meaning, Raoul Berger
Jack Rakove's Rendition Of Original Meaning, Raoul Berger
Indiana Law Journal
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In Search Of The Post-Positivist Jury, Mark Cammack
In Search Of The Post-Positivist Jury, Mark Cammack
Indiana Law Journal
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The Role Of Religious Values In Judicial Decision Making, Scott C. Idleman
The Role Of Religious Values In Judicial Decision Making, Scott C. Idleman
Indiana Law Journal
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Substantive Due Process Analysis And The Lockean Liberal Tradition: Rethinking The Modern Privacy Cases, Jeffrey S. Koehlinger
Substantive Due Process Analysis And The Lockean Liberal Tradition: Rethinking The Modern Privacy Cases, Jeffrey S. Koehlinger
Indiana Law Journal
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Rational Basis With Bite: Intermediate Scrutiny By Any Other Name, Gayle Lynn Pettinga
Rational Basis With Bite: Intermediate Scrutiny By Any Other Name, Gayle Lynn Pettinga
Indiana Law Journal
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Delegation To Private Parties In American Constitutional Law, George W. Liebmann
Delegation To Private Parties In American Constitutional Law, George W. Liebmann
Indiana Law Journal
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