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Drawing The Line: A First Amendment Framework For Partisan Gerrymandering In The Wake Of Rucho V. Common Cause, Kyle Keraga Jan 2020

Drawing The Line: A First Amendment Framework For Partisan Gerrymandering In The Wake Of Rucho V. Common Cause, Kyle Keraga

Maryland Law Review

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American Legion V. American Humanist Ass'n: Exempting Longstanding Governmental Religious Displays From Establishment Clause Scrutiny And How The Endorsement Test Could Have Prevented It, M. Allison Hyde Jan 2020

American Legion V. American Humanist Ass'n: Exempting Longstanding Governmental Religious Displays From Establishment Clause Scrutiny And How The Endorsement Test Could Have Prevented It, M. Allison Hyde

Maryland Law Review

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An Unacknowledged Constitutional Crisis: United States V. Shipp Ii (1909), Leslie F. Goldstein Nov 2017

An Unacknowledged Constitutional Crisis: United States V. Shipp Ii (1909), Leslie F. Goldstein

Maryland Law Review

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How A Court Becomes Supreme: Defending The Constitution From Unconstitutional Amendments, Richard Albert Nov 2017

How A Court Becomes Supreme: Defending The Constitution From Unconstitutional Amendments, Richard Albert

Maryland Law Review

High courts around the world have increasingly invalidated constitutional amendments in defense of their view of democracy, answering in the affirmative what was once a paradoxical question with no obvious answer: can a constitutional amendment be unconstitutional? In the United States, however, the Supreme Court has yet to articulate a theory or doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendment. Faced with a constitutional amendment that would challenge the liberal democratic values of American constitutionalism—for instance an amendment restricting political speech or establishing a national religion—the Court would be left without a strategy or vocabulary to protect the foundations of constitutional democracy. In …