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Full-Text Articles in Law
The False Promise Of One Person, One Vote, Grant M. Hayden
The False Promise Of One Person, One Vote, Grant M. Hayden
Michigan Law Review
It has now been four decades since the Supreme Court stepped into the political thicket with its groundbreaking series of reapportionment cases. Those cases rather quickly brought about radical changes in the structure of our national, state, and local governments and, in so doing, reshaped the political landscape of the country in many, mostly beneficial, ways. The reapportionment cases also signaled the beginning of a revolution in the way we view the rights associated with meaningful participation in a democratic society, a revolution that continues to this day. We now enjoy a right to vote that is much more comprehensive …
Republican Party Of Minnesota V. White: The Lifting Of Judicial Speech Restraint, David B. Bogard
Republican Party Of Minnesota V. White: The Lifting Of Judicial Speech Restraint, David B. Bogard
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Section 5: First Amendment & Election Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
Section 5: First Amendment & Election Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
Supreme Court Preview
No abstract provided.
Stop Me Before I Vote For This Judge Again: Judicial Conduct Organizations, Judicial Accountability, And The Disciplining Of Elected Judges, Alex B. Long
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judicial Selection And Evaluation, Center For Democratic Culture At Unlv
Judicial Selection And Evaluation, Center For Democratic Culture At Unlv
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Malignant Democracy: Core Fallacies Underlying Election Of The Judiciary, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Malignant Democracy: Core Fallacies Underlying Election Of The Judiciary, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Public Financing Of Judicial Campaigns: Practices And Prospects , Michael W. Bowers
Public Financing Of Judicial Campaigns: Practices And Prospects , Michael W. Bowers
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Reinforcing Representation: Congressional Power To Enforce The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Amendments In The Rehnquist And Waite Courts, Ellen D. Katz
Reinforcing Representation: Congressional Power To Enforce The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Amendments In The Rehnquist And Waite Courts, Ellen D. Katz
Michigan Law Review
A large body of academic scholarship accuses the Rehnquist Court of "undoing the Second Reconstruction," just as the Waite Court has long been blamed for facilitating the end of the First. This critique captures much of what is meant by those generally charging the Rehnquist Court with "conservative judicial activism." It posits that the present Court wants to dismantle decades' worth of federal antidiscrimination measures that are aimed at the "reconstruction" of public and private relationships at the local level. It sees the Waite Court as having similarly nullified the civil-rights initiatives enacted by Congress following the Civil War to …
Cheap Talk Citizenship: The Democratic Implications Of Voting With Dollars, Bruce E. Cain
Cheap Talk Citizenship: The Democratic Implications Of Voting With Dollars, Bruce E. Cain
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer
Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Response To Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm For Campaign Finance, Fred Wertheimer, Alexandra T.V. Edsall
Response To Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm For Campaign Finance, Fred Wertheimer, Alexandra T.V. Edsall
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hybridizing Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams
Hybridizing Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dollars And Sense: A "New Paradigm" For Campaign Finance Reform?, Daniel A. Farber
Dollars And Sense: A "New Paradigm" For Campaign Finance Reform?, Daniel A. Farber
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Voting With Cues, Elizabeth Garrett
Voting With Cues, Elizabeth Garrett
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Vouchers And Buckley: The Need For "Regime Change", Richard L. Hasan
Vouchers And Buckley: The Need For "Regime Change", Richard L. Hasan
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why A New Paradigm?, Bruce Ackerman, Ian Ayres
Why A New Paradigm?, Bruce Ackerman, Ian Ayres
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Prisoner's Campaign: Felony Disenfranchisement Laws And The Right To Hold Public Office, Andrea Steinacker
The Prisoner's Campaign: Felony Disenfranchisement Laws And The Right To Hold Public Office, Andrea Steinacker
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Campain-Finance Crucible: Is Laissez Fair?, Jamin B. Raskin
The Campain-Finance Crucible: Is Laissez Fair?, Jamin B. Raskin
Michigan Law Review
The 2001 passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ("BCRA"), popularly known as "McCain-Feingold," set the stage for a momentous constitutional conflict in the United States Supreme Court in the 2003-04 Term. Among other things, the new legislation bans "soft money" contributions to the national political parties by corporations, labor unions, and individuals; prohibits state parties that are authorized to accept such contributions to spend the proceeds on activities related to federal elections; forbids federal candidates to participate in raising soft money; doubles the amount of "hard money" an individual can contribute in a federal election from $1,000 to $2,000 …
The Absentee Ballot And The Secret Ballot: Challenges For Election Reform, John C. Fortier, Norman J. Ornstein
The Absentee Ballot And The Secret Ballot: Challenges For Election Reform, John C. Fortier, Norman J. Ornstein
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Reforms in the recently enacted federal election reform legislation primarily address improving voting at a polling place, but there is a growing share of the electorate who vote away from the polling place through increased use of absentee ballots and vote-by-mail systems. Voters who vote away from the polling place do not have the same protections as those at the polling place. In particular, these voters do not have a secret ballot, as any ballot cast without a drawn curtain behind oneself is potentially subject to coercion, vote buying and fraud.
This Article looks at the tension between the Australian …
Barriers To Participation, Trevor Potter, Marianne H. Viray
Barriers To Participation, Trevor Potter, Marianne H. Viray
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Despite the nation's founding commitment to participatory democracy, many barriers to candidate and public participation in the electoral process are damaging the public's confidence that our elections are fair and open to full participation by candidates and voters.
The nominating processes created by the two major parties mainly serve the goals of party "insiders" and the more politically extreme factions, at the expense of competition and public confidence in the two-party system. At the same time, barriers to minor party and independent candidates-closed primaries, excessive early-voter registration requirements and complicated state primary and general ballot access requirements-operate to foreclose the …
Voter Education: The Key To Election Reform Success Lessons From Florida, Susan A. Macmanus
Voter Education: The Key To Election Reform Success Lessons From Florida, Susan A. Macmanus
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Over a dozen national task forces and commissions have analyzed the 2000 presidential election and concluded that electoral system reforms are imperative not just in Florida, but nationwide. Among the common recommendations are elimination of punch card ballots, enhancement of registration procedures and outreach, provision of more accurate voter lists, clear delineation of appeals processes, establishment of voter rights and responsibilities, clarification of recount rules and procedures, securing of accessible polling places, better facilitation of voting and proper counting of absentee ballots, and ensuring provisional ballots available at each precinct. For these reforms to be most effective, the reports say, …
Remedy Gone Awry: Weighing In On Weighted Voting, Keith R. Wesolowski
Remedy Gone Awry: Weighing In On Weighted Voting, Keith R. Wesolowski
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beggars Can't Be Voters: Why Washington's Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law Violates The Equal Protection Clause, Jill E. Simmons
Beggars Can't Be Voters: Why Washington's Felon Re-Enfranchisement Law Violates The Equal Protection Clause, Jill E. Simmons
Washington Law Review
The Washington State Constitution denies persons convicted of felonies the right to vote until their civil rights have been restored. Civil rights are restored when offenders complete all aspects of their sentence, including paying the legal-financial obligations imposed at sentencing. Payment of legal-financial obligations presents a significant hurdle to offenders trying to reclaim their right to vote. According to the Washington Department of Corrections, roughly 46,500 offenders in Washington have not had their right to vote restored solely because of unpaid legal-financial obligations. The right to vote is a fundamental right secured by the United States Constitution, yet the United …
Sumter County, Alabama And The Origins Of The Voting Rights Act, Brian K. Landsberg
Sumter County, Alabama And The Origins Of The Voting Rights Act, Brian K. Landsberg
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Coherence Or Bust: Telling Tales About Election Law, James A. Gardner
Coherence Or Bust: Telling Tales About Election Law, James A. Gardner
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Judicial Elections, Campaign Financing, And Free Speech, Ronald D. Rotunda
Judicial Elections, Campaign Financing, And Free Speech, Ronald D. Rotunda
Law Faculty Articles and Research
No abstract provided.
The False Promise Of One Person, One Vote, Grant M. Hayden
The False Promise Of One Person, One Vote, Grant M. Hayden
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This article challenges the theoretical foundations of the right to cast an equally weighted vote. That right, most elegantly captured in the phrase one person, one vote, was at the heart of the early reapportionment cases and has since become one of the hallmarks of democracy. One of the principal reasons for the success of the one person, one vote standard is that it appears to be a neutral or objective way of parsing out political power. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and economics on the nature of interpersonal utility comparisons, I demonstrate the normative character of the standard. …
The Lame Ducks Of Marbury, John C. Nagle
The Lame Ducks Of Marbury, John C. Nagle
Journal Articles
The election of 1800 was one of the most contested - and important - in American history. After it became clear that neither President John Adams nor a Federalist majority in Congress had been reelected, they acted during the lame-duck period to preserve their influences far into the future. They did so by appointing John Marshall as Chief Justice, ratifying the Treaty with France, creating numerous new federal judicial positions, and filling many of those positions with friends, family, and Federalists (including William Marbury). Not surprisingly, Jefferson and his supporters protested these actions as contrary to the will of the …
Juror Information On The Web: A Study Of Hispanic Populated Texas Counties, Irma S. Jones, Janna Arney, Dianna Blankenship
Juror Information On The Web: A Study Of Hispanic Populated Texas Counties, Irma S. Jones, Janna Arney, Dianna Blankenship
Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications and Presentations
In response to the initiative of providing juror education materials online, this study proposes that unless Web sites are designed in a usable fashion, this initiative could fail to enhance jury response and further aggravate the problem of underrepresentation by minorities. This study suggests that all online juror information Web sites be analyzed for “usability” and “design” if they are to be an effective education tool. In addition, this study proposes to compare responses to county Web sites in order to gauge bias responses of participants to their own county’s Web site vs. other county Web sites.
Reforming Campaign Finance Reform: A Review Of Voting With Dollars, Richard Briffault
Reforming Campaign Finance Reform: A Review Of Voting With Dollars, Richard Briffault
Faculty Scholarship
On March 27, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ("BCRA") into law. The culmination of a six-year legislative and political struggle, BCRA works the most comprehensive change in federal campaign finance law in nearly three decades. BCRA addresses a broad range of issues, including soft money, issue-advocacy advertising, fundraising on federal property, campaign activities of foreign nationals, and penalties for violation of campaign finance laws. Enacted in the face of intense political opposition, BCRA, if it stands up in court, is a significant reform achievement.
Or is it? BCRA closely follows the main …