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The Future Of Racial Redistricting In Voting: Clark V. Calhoun County, Mississippi., Paul H. Dickerson
The Future Of Racial Redistricting In Voting: Clark V. Calhoun County, Mississippi., Paul H. Dickerson
In the Public Interest
No abstract provided.
The Futility Of Campaign Finance Reform: A Historical Perspective, Christopher H. Hoebeke
The Futility Of Campaign Finance Reform: A Historical Perspective, Christopher H. Hoebeke
Christopher H Hoebeke
No abstract provided.
Liberty, Community And The Constitutional Structure Of Political Influence: A Reconsideration Of The Right To Vote, James A. Gardner
Liberty, Community And The Constitutional Structure Of Political Influence: A Reconsideration Of The Right To Vote, James A. Gardner
Journal Articles
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The Unwelcome Judicial Obligation To Respect Politics In Racial Gerrymandering Remedies, Jeffrey L. Fisher
The Unwelcome Judicial Obligation To Respect Politics In Racial Gerrymandering Remedies, Jeffrey L. Fisher
Michigan Law Review
Like it or not, the attack on "bizarrely" shaped majority-minority electoral districts is now firmly underway. Nearly four years have passed since the Supreme Court first announced in Shaw v. Reno that a state's redistricting plan that is "so extremely irregular on its face that it rationally can be viewed only as an effort to segregate the races for purposes of voting" may violate the Equal Protection Clause. Such a district, the Court held, reinforces racial stereotypes, carries us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters, and "threatens to undermine our system of …
The Fallacy Of Neutrality: Diary Of An Election Observer, Jeanne M. Woods
The Fallacy Of Neutrality: Diary Of An Election Observer, Jeanne M. Woods
Michigan Journal of International Law
Neutrality is one of many conceptual fictions of liberal discourse. A legal fiction is "contrived by the law" to facilitate adjudication of issues. Such fictions may serve as symbols, to make abstract concepts tangible or, they may be myths designed to promote some normative principle or goal. The problem arises when these fictions cease to be recognized as inventions, or as "presumptions about reality," and are believed to have an independent existence in reality. Then, they "purport to provide us with an objective and impersonal criterion, but they do not." According to the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, a fiction is "a …
Searching For A Coherent National Policy: The Problem Of Foreign Money In United States Politics, Celeste M. Murphy
Searching For A Coherent National Policy: The Problem Of Foreign Money In United States Politics, Celeste M. Murphy
Buffalo Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Race, Redistricting And A Republican Poll Tax: The Supreme Court's Voting Rights Decisions Of The 1995-96 Term, Frank Parker
Race, Redistricting And A Republican Poll Tax: The Supreme Court's Voting Rights Decisions Of The 1995-96 Term, Frank Parker
Touro Law Review
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Corporate Philanthropy And Campaign Finance: Exempt Organizations As Corporate-Candidate Conduits, Frances R. Hill
Corporate Philanthropy And Campaign Finance: Exempt Organizations As Corporate-Candidate Conduits, Frances R. Hill
Articles
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