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In Pittsburgh, Freedom Abridged, Bruce Ledewitz
In Pittsburgh, Freedom Abridged, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Make >Em Fess Up, Bruce Ledewitz
Make >Em Fess Up, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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The End Of American Democracy?, Bruce Ledewitz
The End Of American Democracy?, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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A Commander's Power, A Civilian's Reason: Justice Jackson's Korematsu Dissent, John Q. Barrett
A Commander's Power, A Civilian's Reason: Justice Jackson's Korematsu Dissent, John Q. Barrett
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Robert Houghwout Jackson was a justice of the United States Supreme Court during the years of World War II. This article considers his great but potentially perplexing December 1944 dissent in Korematsu v. United States, in which he refused to join the Court majority that proclaimed the constitutionality of military orders excluding Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States during the War years. This article considers Justice Jackson's Korematsu dissent in full. It was and is, contrary to some of the criticisms it has received over the past 60 years, a coherent position. Jackson's dissent is also …
The Present And Future Of Federalism, Bruce Ledewitz
The Present And Future Of Federalism, Bruce Ledewitz
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Up Against The Wall Of Separation: The Question Of Religious Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
Up Against The Wall Of Separation: The Question Of Religious Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
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Between Dependency And Liberty: The Conundrum Of Children’S Rights In The Gilded Age, David S. Tanenhaus
Between Dependency And Liberty: The Conundrum Of Children’S Rights In The Gilded Age, David S. Tanenhaus
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Although legal scholars often assume that the history of children's rights in the United States did not begin until the mid twentieth century, this essay argues that a sophisticated conception of children's rights existed a century earlier, and analyzes how lawmakers articulated it through their attempts to define the rights of dependent children. How to handle their cases raised fundamental questions about whether children were autonomous beings or the property of either their parents and/or the state. And, if the latter, what were the limits of parental authority and/or the power of the state acting as a parent? By investigating …
In Defense Of The Debt Limit Statute, Anita S. Krishnakumar
In Defense Of The Debt Limit Statute, Anita S. Krishnakumar
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The debt limit statute is a critical feature of the federal budget process and prompts frequent legislation to increase the government's borrowing authority. In this Article, Professor Anita S. Krishnakumar examines the history of the debt limit statute as well as its function in the fiscal constitution. The Article deconstructs several popular criticisms of the debt limit statute, arguing that the criticisms exaggerate and that the statute in fact serves two important roles: first, the statute is the last remnant of congressional control and accountability over the national debt; second, it acts as an important institutional check on party and …
Congressional Threats Of Removal Against Federal Judges, Marc O. Degirolami
Congressional Threats Of Removal Against Federal Judges, Marc O. Degirolami
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The federal judicial branch has lately become the object of increasing scrutiny and distrust by its legislative counterpart. Congressional suspicion is often directed toward judicial discretion in criminal sentencing and, more generally, the degree to which judges are perceived to be beholden to a particular ideological point of view or personal bias. This distrust has bred a potent strain of political opportunism that Congress has manifested in several recent bills. One of these, the Feeney Amendment to the PROTECT Act, all but eliminated judicial discretion in sentencing and tacitly threatens judges' continued employment. Though the Supreme Court's recent decision in …
Untied States: American Expansion And Territorial Deannexation, Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus
Untied States: American Expansion And Territorial Deannexation, Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus
Faculty Scholarship
At the beginning of the twentieth century the United States laid claim to an overseas empire, consolidating its victory in the Spanish-American War by adopting novel structures of colonial rule over a brace of newly acquired island territories. A set of Supreme Court decisions known collectively as the Insular Cases established the legal authorization for this undertaking. As the traditional story goes, they did so by holding that the U.S. Constitution did not "follow the flag" to the recently annexed possessions in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea: thus unfettered, an ambitiously imperial nation could attend to the business …