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Teens, Sexts, & Cyberspace: The Constitutional Implications Of Current Sexting & Cyberbullying Laws, Jamie L. Williams
Teens, Sexts, & Cyberspace: The Constitutional Implications Of Current Sexting & Cyberbullying Laws, Jamie L. Williams
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Dodging A Bullet: Mcdonald V. City Of Chicago And The Limits Of Progessive Originalism, Dale E. Ho
Dodging A Bullet: Mcdonald V. City Of Chicago And The Limits Of Progessive Originalism, Dale E. Ho
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
The Supreme Court’s decision in last term’s gun rights case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, punctured the conventional wisdom after District of Columbia v. Heller that “we are all originalists now.” Surprisingly, many progressive academics were disappointed. For “progressive originalists,” McDonald was a missed opportunity to overrule the Slaughter-House Cases and to revitalize the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In their view, such a ruling could have realigned progressive constitutional achievements with originalism and relieved progressives of the albatross of substantive due process, while also unlocking long-dormant constitutional text to serve as the source of new unenumerated …