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The Road To The Gettysburg Address, Alfred L. Brophy
The Road To The Gettysburg Address, Alfred L. Brophy
Florida State University Law Review
This Article recovers the forgotten ideas about public constitutionalism in seventy published addresses given at cemetery dedications from Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story’s address at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1831, to the addresses by Edward Everett and Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in November 1863. It reveals an important, but forgotten, set of ideas that provided a precedent for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Those addresses, including Lincoln’s, reveal the centrality of constitutional values—as opposed to constitutional text—in framing Americans’ interpretation of the Constitution. Pre-Civil War Americans had a vibrant public discussion of constitutional principles, in addition to constitutional text. …
Colombia's Incursion Into Ecuadorian Territory: Justified Hot Pursuit Or Pugnacious Error?, Luz E. Nagle
Colombia's Incursion Into Ecuadorian Territory: Justified Hot Pursuit Or Pugnacious Error?, Luz E. Nagle
Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy
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Pakistan's Political Upheaval: The Demise Of Nuclear Democracy, Jared M. Lee
Pakistan's Political Upheaval: The Demise Of Nuclear Democracy, Jared M. Lee
Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy
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