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Howard: The Road From Runnymede: Magna Carta And Constitutionalism In America, Leonard W. Levy
Howard: The Road From Runnymede: Magna Carta And Constitutionalism In America, Leonard W. Levy
Michigan Law Review
A Review o The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America by A.E. Dick Howard
Conscription And The Constitution: The Original Understanding, Leon Friedman
Conscription And The Constitution: The Original Understanding, Leon Friedman
Michigan Law Review
The general words of the Constitution-famous phrases such as "due process," "freedom of speech," "interstate commerce," and "raise and support armies"-are not self-evident concepts. As Justice Frankfurter said, "The language of the [Constitution] is to be read not as barren words found in a dictionary but as symbols of historic experience illumined by the presuppositions of those who employed them. Not what words did Madison and Hamilton use, but what was it in their minds which they conveyed?" While the framers obviously could not have foreseen the discovery of electromagnetic radio waves or atomic energy, and had no "intent" concerning …
Levy: Origins Of The Fifth Amendment, O. John Rogge
Levy: Origins Of The Fifth Amendment, O. John Rogge
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy