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Pause At The Rubicon, John Marshall And Emancipation: Reparations In The Early National Period?, Frances Howell Rudko
Pause At The Rubicon, John Marshall And Emancipation: Reparations In The Early National Period?, Frances Howell Rudko
Faculty Publications
Marshall thought that the solution to emancipation and the end to slavery were to be nationally funded. He considered slavery a national problem, not a state problem, as most of his fellow Virginians insisted. In this he differed from most southerners who argued that slave matters were state matters and that the nation could involve itself in the institution of slavery only by strictly adhering to the role assigned to it by the Constitution under the three fifths clause and the fugitive slave clause.
William Wirt & The Invention Of The Public Lawyer, H. Jefferson Powell
William Wirt & The Invention Of The Public Lawyer, H. Jefferson Powell
Faculty Scholarship
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Does Law And Literature Survive Lawyerland?, Sarah Krakoff
Does Law And Literature Survive Lawyerland?, Sarah Krakoff
Publications
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Judicial Fact-Finding And Sentence Enhancements In A World Of Guilty Pleas, Stephanos Bibas
Judicial Fact-Finding And Sentence Enhancements In A World Of Guilty Pleas, Stephanos Bibas
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Reconstructing The Rule Of Law, Robin West
Reconstructing The Rule Of Law, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The action taken in Bush v. Gore by the five conservative Justices on the United States Supreme Court, Bugliosi argued, was not just wrong as a matter of law, but criminal: It was a malem in se, fully intended, premeditated theft of a national election for the Presidency of the United States. Now, as Balkan and Levinson would argue, this seventh, "prosecutorial" response -- that the Court's action was not just wrong but criminal -- is also not available to a devotee of either radical or moderate indeterminacy. Even assuming both criminal intent and severe harm-a wrongful, specific intent to …