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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
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Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds
Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
Reviews the life and contributions of Maryland lawyer and scholar Luther Martin (1748-1826).
Enforcement Provisions Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: A Legislative History In Light Of Runyon V. Mccrary, The Review Essay And Comments: Reconstructing Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Enforcement Provisions Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: A Legislative History In Light Of Runyon V. Mccrary, The Review Essay And Comments: Reconstructing Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this Comment is to examine the history of the enactment and early enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 from the perspective of the remedies Congress sought to provide to meet the problems that necessitated the legislation. Its main foci are the statute's enforcement provisions and their early implementation, an aspect of the history of the statute that has not been fully considered in relation to section one, the provision that has received the most scholarly attention. The occasion of this study is the Supreme Court's reconsideration of Runyon v. McCrary' in Patterson v. McLean Credit …
An Astonishing Political Innovation: The Origins Of Judicial Review, Barbara Aronstein Black
An Astonishing Political Innovation: The Origins Of Judicial Review, Barbara Aronstein Black
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It is a very great honor to be here today participating in the Third Circuit Judicial Conference and in the celebration of our two hundred years of government under the remarkable document that we call the Constitution of the United States. Philadelphia is indeed today the center of the universe and I am delighted to be here.
In addressing the topic assigned to me, "The Origins of Judicial Review," I will take my cue, in fact my text, from Judge Pollak, who, in a letter to me, suggested that I "draw in broad strokes the legal historical landscape in which …