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Nancy C Marcus

2014

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Deeply Rooted Principles Of Equal Liberty, Not 'Argle Bargle': The Inevitability Of Marriage Equality After Windsor, Nancy C. Marcus Jan 2014

Deeply Rooted Principles Of Equal Liberty, Not 'Argle Bargle': The Inevitability Of Marriage Equality After Windsor, Nancy C. Marcus

Nancy C Marcus

"‘Argle Bargle,’ or Deeply-Rooted Principles of Equal Liberty? The Inevitability of Marriage Equality after Windsor" is an article that analyzes United States v. Windsor, the recent Supreme Court same-sex marriage opinion striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. Although Justice Scalia’s dissent in Windsor dismisses the majority opinion, authored by Justice Kennedy, as legalistic argle bargle, this article explains that the Windsor majority opinion is, rather, a principled decision reflecting an evolved understanding of fundamental constitutional values. The article explains why the majority opinion should not be understood as one with a federalist holding that reserves to …

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When Quacking Like A Duck Is Really A Swan Song In Disguise: How Windsor's State Powers Analysis Sets The Stage For The Demise Of Federalism-Based Marriage Discrimination, Nancy C. Marcus Dec 2013

When Quacking Like A Duck Is Really A Swan Song In Disguise: How Windsor's State Powers Analysis Sets The Stage For The Demise Of Federalism-Based Marriage Discrimination, Nancy C. Marcus

Nancy C Marcus

United States v. Windsor may, in the views of some, walk and talk like a federalist duck, but upon closer examination, the decision is not a federalist decision at all, but is, rather, a swan song for federalist-based marriage discrimination.
Leading up to Windsor, federalist-based arguments for marriage equality were advocated by the late twentieth-century minimalist movement, which viewed the judiciary as an ineffective agent of social change, and urged the narrowest of constitutional claims, pessimistic about the likelihood of broad individual rights claims to same-sex marriage rights. After Windsor’s release, some have interpreted it as being a federalist decision, …

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