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Law And The Experience Of Politics In Late Eighteenth-Century North Carolina: North Carolina Considers The Constitution, Walter F. Pratt

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In 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debate erupted between Federalists and Anti-federalists regarding each Article of the then-drafted Constitution. This Article analyzes the debate, and proposes that the key difference was the function of the role of the law.

Article V And The Proposed Federal Constitutional Convention Procedures Bills, Kenneth F. Ripple

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Article V of the United States Constitution sets forth the respective powers of the states and Congress in the amendment process. At first blush, the amendment process outlined in article V appears uncomplicated and straightforward. Congress can propose amendments and determine whether ratification will be accomplished by state legislatures or state conventions. Three-fourths of the state legislatures or state conventions must ratify a proposed amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution. The history of the amendment process confirms the apparent simplicity of that provision of article V which empowers Congress to propose amendments. To date, all twenty-six amendments have …

Compulsory Conciliation For New York, Willaim Burns Lawless

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It has been proposed that a state commission to study matrimonial statutes be created in New York. While this proposal has merit, New York state should in any event adopt legal procedures requiring compulsory conciliation where parties to a marriage undertake formal proceedings for legal separation or divorce.

Perhaps the most remarkable progress in this direction has been made in California and in Wisconsin, and we believe the experiences of these two states provide a helpful pattern for new procedures in New York. We think that New York law dealing with conciliation in marriage must be amended and strengthened if …

The Emergence Of Law And Justice In Pre-Territorial Wisconsin, Donald P. Kommers

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The article discusses the history of law and courts in Wisconsin from the period of French exploration in the 17th century to the 1820s. It focuses on the emergence of a structure of law and justice based on the common law tradition in Wisconsin, and argues this system played a significant role in disciplining its society. Law and courts, according to the article, fostered civility between frontiersmen, making them accustomed to the principles of fair play and equity and the practice of litigation when their interests were threatened. This development brought order to the area and shaped the future course …

Mr. Justice Jackson: The Struggle For Federal Supremacy, William Burns Lawless

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Robert Houghwout Jackson, in defining the American way of life, reflects a penetrating self-analysis and summarizes his basic approach to judicial review. With this outlook, Attorney General Jackson was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1941 to fill the place left vacant by Harlan Fiske Stone upon his ascendancy to the position of Chief Justice. His appointment came at a time of political unrest and international tension. Bar and press were skeptical, indeed cynical, of "The Roosevelt Court." The days were wrapped in talk of defense, rearmament, neutrality, lend-lease. Just as a new relationship had been begrudgingly assumed …

Church, The State, And Mrs. Mccollum, Clarence Emmett Manion

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On March 8, 1948 the Supreme Court of the United States decided in substance that this language prohibits the tax-supported city school systems of the State of Illinois from assisting and encouraging general religious instruction. Just how a constitutional restriction against specified congressional action can possibly impede the activity of a local Illinois school board is an inglorious mystery of modern constitutional construction.

In one way or another however, and for one reason or many, the Court decided eight to one that when the First Amendment says "Congress" it means, among other things, a local school board and when it …

Book Review, Clarence Emmett Manion

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Reviewing: Indiana Law-Future Interests, Wills, Descent, by Bernard C. Gavit.(Bloomington: The Principia Press, Inc. 1934).