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The Federalist And The Fourteenth Amendment — Publius In Antebellum Public Debate 1788–1860, Kurt T. Lash Jan 2023

The Federalist And The Fourteenth Amendment — Publius In Antebellum Public Debate 1788–1860, Kurt T. Lash

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The Congruent Constitution (Part Two): Reverse Incorporation, Jay S. Bybee Dec 2022

The Congruent Constitution (Part Two): Reverse Incorporation, Jay S. Bybee

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In Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court thought it “unthinkable” that the Equal Protection Clause would not apply to the federal government as well as the states and declared it “reverse incorporated” through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause is the most familiar example of reverse incorporation, but it is neither the first nor the only provision of the Constitution that, by its terms, applies to the states alone, but which the Supreme Court has made applicable to the federal government through the Due …


The Congruent Constitution (Part One): Incorporation, Jay S. Bybee Nov 2022

The Congruent Constitution (Part One): Incorporation, Jay S. Bybee

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In Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore (1833), the Supreme Court held that the Bill of Rights applied to the federal government alone. Following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, the Supreme Court reconsidered the rule of Barron. The Court first reaffirmed the rule of Barron and held that neither the Privileges or Immunities Clause nor the Due Process Clause made the Bill of Rights applicable to the states. It then entered a period of “absorption,” where the Court held that the Due Process Clause guaranteed some minimal rights found in the Bill of Rights, but not necessarily the …


Praying For America: The Anti-Theocracy And Equal Status Principles Of The Free Exercise, Equal Protection And Establishment Clauses, Corey Brettschneider Jun 2022

Praying For America: The Anti-Theocracy And Equal Status Principles Of The Free Exercise, Equal Protection And Establishment Clauses, Corey Brettschneider

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In this essay I argue that the Constitution’s Equal Protection, Establishment, and Free Exercise Clauses share common principled limits on the role that religion can play in public life. Specifically, drawing on the free-exercise case of Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, the equal protection case of Romer v. Evans, and the establishment clause case of Town of Greece v. Galloway, I propose two principles to describe the proper place of religious justification as a basis for law. The first requirement is that in addition to any religious reasons for laws, the state must have …


Redefining The Boundary Between Appropriation And Regulation, Jessica L. Asbridge May 2022

Redefining The Boundary Between Appropriation And Regulation, Jessica L. Asbridge

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The U.S. Supreme Court distinguishes between appropriations and regulations of property rights when interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause. While appropriations of any kind require just compensation to survive constitutional scrutiny, whether non-appropriative laws regulating property rights require compensation is determined on an ad hoc basis, guided by concerns of fairness and justness. In Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the Court reaffirmed its prior precedent establishing the physical takings doctrine, providing that an appropriation is any government action that results in a physical invasion of an owner’s real property and a taking of the owner’s right to exclude. The Court …


Reflections On Constitutional Interpretation, Raoul Berger Sep 1997

Reflections On Constitutional Interpretation, Raoul Berger

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Adarand Constructors V. Pena: Madisonian Theory As A Justification For Lesser Constitutional Scrutiny Of Federal Race-Conscious Legislation, Russell N. Watterson Jr. Mar 1996

Adarand Constructors V. Pena: Madisonian Theory As A Justification For Lesser Constitutional Scrutiny Of Federal Race-Conscious Legislation, Russell N. Watterson Jr.

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A Critical Analysis Of Constitutional Claims For Same-Sex Marriage, Lynn D. Wardle Mar 1996

A Critical Analysis Of Constitutional Claims For Same-Sex Marriage, Lynn D. Wardle

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Deshaney's Effect On Future "Poor Joshuas" -Whether A State Should Be Liable Under The Fourteenth Amendment For Harm Inflicted By A Private Individual, Lori Demond May 1990

Deshaney's Effect On Future "Poor Joshuas" -Whether A State Should Be Liable Under The Fourteenth Amendment For Harm Inflicted By A Private Individual, Lori Demond

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The Fourteenth Amendment And The Bill Of Rights, Raoul Berger May 1990

The Fourteenth Amendment And The Bill Of Rights, Raoul Berger

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Circumventing Racism: Confronting The Problem Of The Affirmative Action Ideology, Christopher T. Wonnell Mar 1989

Circumventing Racism: Confronting The Problem Of The Affirmative Action Ideology, Christopher T. Wonnell

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Constitutional Law-Equal Protection-Due Process - The Irrebuttable Presumption Doctrine - Weinberger V. Salfi, Arlen D. Woffinden May 1976

Constitutional Law-Equal Protection-Due Process - The Irrebuttable Presumption Doctrine - Weinberger V. Salfi, Arlen D. Woffinden

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Judicial Supervision Of Legislative Classifications - A More Modest Role For Equal Protection, Edward L. Barrett Jr. Mar 1976

Judicial Supervision Of Legislative Classifications - A More Modest Role For Equal Protection, Edward L. Barrett Jr.

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