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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz
It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz
Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Mishandling The Current Crisis, Bruce Ledewitz
Mishandling The Current Crisis, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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The Role Of Executive Clemency In Modern Death Penalty Cases, Bruce Ledewitz
The Role Of Executive Clemency In Modern Death Penalty Cases, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Reflections On The American And Talmudic Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz
Reflections On The American And Talmudic Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Confident, But Still Not Positive, Steven L. Winter
Confident, But Still Not Positive, Steven L. Winter
Law Faculty Research Publications
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No Punishment Without Cruelty, Bruce Ledewitz
No Punishment Without Cruelty, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Could The Death Penalty Be A Cruel Punishment?, Bruce Ledewitz
Could The Death Penalty Be A Cruel Punishment?, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Constitutional Law And The Myth Of The Great Judge, Michael S. Ariens
Constitutional Law And The Myth Of The Great Judge, Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
One of the enduring myths of American history, including constitutional history, is that of the “Great Man” or “Great Woman.” The idea is that, to understand the history of America, one needs to understand the impact made by Great Men and Women whose actions affected the course of history. In political history, one assays the development of the United States through the lives of great Americans, from the “Founders” to Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy. Similarly, in constitutional history, the story is told through key figures, the “Great Judges,” from John Marshall to Oliver Wendell Holmes to Earl Warren. …
Whose Loyalties?, Christina B. Whitman
Whose Loyalties?, Christina B. Whitman
Reviews
It is disconcerting to open a book subtitled An Essay on the Morality of Relationships and find that the two case studies that most interest the author are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the criminalization of flag burning. Although George Fletcher begins to make his case for giving moral priority to loyalties by referring to the impulse to save one's mother from a burning house (p. 12), he is more concerned with the ties that bind individuals to groups than with the ethics of relationships between individuals. The loyalties to which Fletcher would give "moral importance" …