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The 9/11 Commission And The White House: Issues Of Executive Privilege And Separation Of Powers, Daniel Marcus
The 9/11 Commission And The White House: Issues Of Executive Privilege And Separation Of Powers, Daniel Marcus
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John Brown's Constitution, Robert L. Tsai
John Brown's Constitution, Robert L. Tsai
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It will surprise many Americans to learn that before John Brown and his men briefly captured Harper’s Ferry, they authored and ratified a Provisional Constitution. This deliberative act built upon the achievements of the group to establish a Free Kansas, during which time Brown penned an analogue to the Declaration of Independence. These acts of writing, coupled with Brown’s trial tactics after his arrest, cast doubts on claims that the man was a lunatic or on a suicide mission. Instead, they suggest that John Brown aimed to be a radical statesman, one who turned to extreme tactics but nevertheless remained …
A Social Movement History Of Title Vii Disparate Impact Analysis, Susan Carle
A Social Movement History Of Title Vii Disparate Impact Analysis, Susan Carle
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Ricci v. DeStefano suggests trouble ahead for disparate impact analysis under Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991. Commentators, too, have begun to question the policy bases for this doctrine. Part of the current tenuousness surrounding disparate impact analysis, which the Court first approved in its 1971 opinion in Griggs v. Duke Power Company, stems from assumptions that the EEOC pursued this theory as a last-minute, ill-conceived afterthought that was not in keeping with Congress’s intent when it passed Title VII in 1964. In this Article I use the …
State Sovereign Immunity And The Roberts Court, Stephen I. Vladeck
State Sovereign Immunity And The Roberts Court, Stephen I. Vladeck
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