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An Original Model Of The Independent Counsel Statute, Ken Gormley Dec 1998

An Original Model Of The Independent Counsel Statute, Ken Gormley

Michigan Law Review

On Friday, October 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon took a risky step to de-fang the Watergate investigation that had become a "viper in the bosom" of his Presidency. The U.S. Court of Appeals had just directed him to tum over tape-recordings subpoenaed by Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; these taperecordings might prove or disprove White House involvement in the Watergate cover-up. Rather than challenge this ruling, the President conceived a new plan. The White House would prepare summaries of the nine tape-recordings in question, which would be verified by Senator John Stennis, a seventy-two-year-old Democrat from Mississippi, working alone …


How Serious Is The Threat Of Impeachment? And To Whom?, Harold Baer Jr. May 1998

How Serious Is The Threat Of Impeachment? And To Whom?, Harold Baer Jr.

Michigan Law Review

While a slender volume, The Federal Impeachment Process offers the reader a variety of different insights on this topic, beginning with the debates at the Constitutional Convention and running to the modem-day practice of impeachment trials by committee rather than by the full senate. Impeachment is valuable reading, not just for those of us interested in American history, or those of us who are public officers of the United States, but for every American who wants to understand his or her morning newspaper better. Not only does it lift the veil of darkness surrounding the impeachment process, it provides a …


How To Constitutionalize International Law And Foreign Policy For The Benefit Of Civil Society?, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann Jan 1998

How To Constitutionalize International Law And Foreign Policy For The Benefit Of Civil Society?, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Michigan Journal of International Law

All societies have adopted rules in order to reconcile conflicts among the short-term interests of their citizens with their common long-term interests. All societies have learned that rule-making and rule-enforcement require government powers, as well as "checks and balances" against abuses of such powers. Constitutionalism has emerged as the most important human invention for protecting equal rights of the citizens against such abuses. It rests on the rationality of Ulysses who, when approaching the island of the sirens and knowing of their dangers, ordered his companions to bind him to the mast and not to release him under any circumstances.' …


Voting Rights, Eric Lane Jan 1998

Voting Rights, Eric Lane

Touro Law Review

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Physician Assisted Suicide, Leon Friedman Jan 1998

Physician Assisted Suicide, Leon Friedman

Touro Law Review

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The Declaration Of Independence In Constitutional Interpretation: A Selective History And Analysis, Charles H. Cosgrove Jan 1998

The Declaration Of Independence In Constitutional Interpretation: A Selective History And Analysis, Charles H. Cosgrove

University of Richmond Law Review

In 1845, antislavery constitutionalist Lysander Spooner argued that the Declaration of Independence was originally a legal constitution with a direct bearing on how one ought to interpret the status of slavery under the Constitution of 1787. In 1889, the congressional act establishing the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington required that their state constitutions "not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence," as if the two documents were of a piece. In 1995, attorney Christopher Darden argued to the jury in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial that slain victims Nicole …


Stop ... Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, And Do Not Ask For A Notary, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 879 (1998), R. Jason Richards Jan 1998

Stop ... Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, And Do Not Ask For A Notary, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 879 (1998), R. Jason Richards

UIC Law Review

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New York's State Constitution In National Context, Robert F. Williams Jan 1998

New York's State Constitution In National Context, Robert F. Williams

Touro Law Review

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When Is The New York Court Of Appeals Justified In Deviating From Federal Constitutional Interpretation?, Honorable Richard D. Simons Jan 1998

When Is The New York Court Of Appeals Justified In Deviating From Federal Constitutional Interpretation?, Honorable Richard D. Simons

Touro Law Review

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"Constitutionalism" : The White Man's Ghost Dance, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 513 (1998), Robert C. Black Jan 1998

"Constitutionalism" : The White Man's Ghost Dance, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 513 (1998), Robert C. Black

UIC Law Review

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Without Justification: Misplaced Reliance On United Nations Security Council Resolutions For Presidential War Making, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 583 (1998), Timothy D. A. O'Hara Jan 1998

Without Justification: Misplaced Reliance On United Nations Security Council Resolutions For Presidential War Making, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 583 (1998), Timothy D. A. O'Hara

UIC Law Review

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