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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Tribute To Professor Bonita K. Roberts, David A. Schlueter
Tribute To Professor Bonita K. Roberts, David A. Schlueter
St. Mary's Law Journal
A tribute to St. Mary's University School of Law Professor Bonita K. Roberts.
Professor Bonita K. Roberts—A Colleague And A “Conscience”, Victoria Mather
Professor Bonita K. Roberts—A Colleague And A “Conscience”, Victoria Mather
St. Mary's Law Journal
A tribute to Bonita K. Roberts, a professor at St. Mary's University School of Law.
In Honor Of Professor Bonita K. Roberts, Linda L. Schlueter, Faye M. Bracey
In Honor Of Professor Bonita K. Roberts, Linda L. Schlueter, Faye M. Bracey
St. Mary's Law Journal
A tribute to Professor Bonita K. Roberts of St. Mary's University School of Law.
The Case Of The Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris And The Creation Of The Federalist Constitution, William Michael Treanor
The Case Of The Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris And The Creation Of The Federalist Constitution, William Michael Treanor
Michigan Law Review
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates appointed the Committee of Style and Arrangement to bring together the textual provisions that the Convention had previously agreed to and to prepare a final constitution. Pennsylvania delegate Gouverneur Morris drafted the document for the Committee, and, with few revisions and little debate, the Convention adopted Morris’s draft. For more than two hundred years, questions have been raised as to whether Morris covertly altered the text in order to advance his constitutional vision, but modern legal scholars and historians studying the Convention have either ignored the issue or concluded that Morris …
Don't Change The Subject: How State Election Laws Can Nullify Ballot Questions, Cole Gordner
Don't Change The Subject: How State Election Laws Can Nullify Ballot Questions, Cole Gordner
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
Procedural election laws regulate the conduct of state elections and provide for greater transparency and fairness in statewide ballots. These laws ensure that the public votes separately on incongruous bills and protects the electorate from uncertainties contained in omnibus packages. As demonstrated by a slew of recent court cases, however, interest groups that are opposed to the objective of a ballot question are utilizing these election laws with greater frequency either to prevent a state electorate from voting on an initiative or to overturn a ballot question that was already decided in the initiative’s favor. This practice is subverting the …
The People's Court: On The Intellectual Origins Of American Judicial Power, Ian C. Bartrum
The People's Court: On The Intellectual Origins Of American Judicial Power, Ian C. Bartrum
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
This article enters into the modern debate between “consti- tutional departmentalists”—who contend that the executive and legislative branches share constitutional interpretive authority with the courts—and what are sometimes called “judicial supremacists.” After exploring the relevant history of political ideas, I join the modern minority of voices in the latter camp.
This is an intellectual history of two evolving political ideas—popular sovereignty and the separation of powers—which merged in the making of American judicial power, and I argue we can only understand the structural function of judicial review by bringing these ideas together into an integrated whole. Or, put another way, …
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
Introductory Remarks, Michael Rogers, Hannah Hamley, Rayshaun D. Williams
Introductory Remarks, Michael Rogers, Hannah Hamley, Rayshaun D. Williams
Seattle University Law Review
Introductory Remarks.
Foreword, Seattle University Law Review
The Deans' Roundtable, Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean Danielle Conway, Dean Tamara Lawson, Dean Mario Barnes, Dean L. Song Richardson
The Deans' Roundtable, Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean Danielle Conway, Dean Tamara Lawson, Dean Mario Barnes, Dean L. Song Richardson
Seattle University Law Review
The Deans' Roundtable.
Marissa Jackson Sow’S “Whiteness As Contract”, Marissa Jackson Sow
Marissa Jackson Sow’S “Whiteness As Contract”, Marissa Jackson Sow
Seattle University Law Review
Marissa Jackson Sow’s “Whiteness as Contract.”
Closing Remarks, Dontay Proctor-Mills