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Agins V. City Of Tiburon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Agins V. City Of Tiburon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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Rites Of Passage: Race, The Supreme Court, And The Constitution, William W. Van Alstyne
Rites Of Passage: Race, The Supreme Court, And The Constitution, William W. Van Alstyne
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In Their Own Image: The Reframing Of The Due Process Clause By The United States Supreme Court, J. Ralph Beaird
In Their Own Image: The Reframing Of The Due Process Clause By The United States Supreme Court, J. Ralph Beaird
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A distinguished constitutional scholar recently pointed out that "many of the important decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are not based on law in the popular sense of that term." It is true, he noted, that "the court endeavors to identify Constitutional clauses upon which to hang its pronouncements." "[S]ome key words and phrases in the Constitution," however, "are so highly indeterminate that they cannot really qualify as law in any usual sense." Rather, he said, "they are semantic blanks--verbal vacuums that may be filled readily with any one of many possible meanings." Thus, it is not …