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No Safe Spaces: A Distorted Image Of A Clear Problem, Michael Conklin
No Safe Spaces: A Distorted Image Of A Clear Problem, Michael Conklin
Pepperdine Law Review
This is a critical analysis of the documentary No Safe Spaces. The movie features comedian Adam Carolla and conservative talk show host Dennis Prager. Depending on the source, the movie is either the most necessary and prescient documentary ever or the most harmful. Unfortunately, the polarizing nature of the reviews largely fall along partisan political lines, with conservatives praising the movie and liberals criticizing it. This partisan result could have likely been minimized if the movie communicated a more bipartisan tone. To further complicate things, the movie does not provide a clear thesis of what it is trying to promote. …
The Republican Party, Conservatives, And The Future Of Capital Punishment, Ben Jones
The Republican Party, Conservatives, And The Future Of Capital Punishment, Ben Jones
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
The United States has experienced a significant decline in the death penalty during the first part of the twenty-first century, as death sentences, executions, public support, and states with capital punishment all have declined. Many recent reforms banning or placing a moratorium on executions have occurred in blue states, in line with the notion that ending the death penalty is a progressive cause. Challenging this narrative, however, is the emergence of Republican lawmakers as champions of death penalty repeal legislation in red states. This Article puts these efforts by Republican lawmakers into historical context and explains the conservative case against …
Citizenship After The Conservative Movement, Elisabeth Zoller
Citizenship After The Conservative Movement, Elisabeth Zoller
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Citizenship as a societal and political value has undergone major transformations under the conservative movement that took the lead in western democracies over the past forty years. In defining liberty as "absence of coercion" or "freedom from any restraint," the conservatives distorted the meaning of true liberty, which is "ordered liberty." In insisting on self-reliance as the prerequisite of individual insertion in society, they have precipitated an abatement in citizens' social and political rights that have had lingering effects on the social fabric, even today. Although these developments are domestic in nature, they greatly impact globalization insofar as they accelerate …
Stare Decisis: Precedent And Principle In Constitutional Adjudication , Charles J. Cooper
Stare Decisis: Precedent And Principle In Constitutional Adjudication , Charles J. Cooper
Cornell Law Review
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Conflict Between Text And Precedent In Constitutional Adjudication , Stephen Reinhardt
Conflict Between Text And Precedent In Constitutional Adjudication , Stephen Reinhardt
Cornell Law Review
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The Fright Peddlers, Thomas H. Kuchel
The Fright Peddlers, Thomas H. Kuchel
Cleveland State Law Review
Senator Kuchel from California authorized the Editors of this Law Review to publish, as his contribution to this Symposium, extracts from his address to Congress as reported in the Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress, First Session; Vol. 10g, No. 79; May 28, 1963. This article is, in effect, a brief digest of that address.
Tourtellot: An Anatomy Of American Politics, Michigan Law Review
Tourtellot: An Anatomy Of American Politics, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of AN ANATOMY OF AMERICAN POLITICS. By Arthur Bernon Tourtellot.