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Pembaruan Pemahaman Bahasa Hukum Indonesia Dalam Penafsiran Konstitusi Untuk Jaminan Kepastian Hukum, Normand Edwin Elnizar
Pembaruan Pemahaman Bahasa Hukum Indonesia Dalam Penafsiran Konstitusi Untuk Jaminan Kepastian Hukum, Normand Edwin Elnizar
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
This article attempts to explain legal language aspects need to be improved in implementing laws that uphold justice while at the same time provide legal certainty. The study is limited to the constitution as the highest law in the national legal system. The explanation of the linguistic aspect including foreign legal terminology in the constitutional interpretation and the constitutional interpretation as a discourse analysis. It was conducted by literature research to compare the paradigm of constitutional interpretation theory with linguistic aspects in linguistic theory. Decision Number 84/PUU-XVI/2018 used as example for this research. This qualitative research describes some linguistic aspects …
Contingent Constitutionalism: State And Local Criminal Laws And The Applicability Of Federal Constitutional Rights, Wayne A. Logan
Contingent Constitutionalism: State And Local Criminal Laws And The Applicability Of Federal Constitutional Rights, Wayne A. Logan
William & Mary Law Review
Americans have long been bound by a shared sense of constitutional commonality, and the Supreme Court has repeatedly condemned the notion that federal constitutional rights should be allowed to depend on distinct state and local legal norms. In reality, however, federal rights do indeed vary, and they do so as a result of their contingent relationship to the diversity of state and local laws on which they rely. Focusing on criminal procedure rights in particular, this Article examines the benefits and detriments of constitutional contingency, and casts in new light many enduring understandings of American constitutionalism, including the effects of …