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Ink Blot Or Not: The Meaning Of Privileges And/Or Immunities, Richard Aynes
Ink Blot Or Not: The Meaning Of Privileges And/Or Immunities, Richard Aynes
Richard L. Aynes
This article examines the meaning of the terms privileges and immunities as used in Article IV of the U.S. Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment. It begins by tracing the American use of the terms to April 10, 1606 in the first Charter of Virginia. Building upon the work of other scholars and citing original documents, it concludes that these words has a well-established meaning as “rights” well before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. The article notes that in Justice Miller’s decision in the Slaughter-House Cases he refers to the privileges and immunities of Corfield v. Coryell as “those rights which …
Book Review: The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888., David S. Bogen
Book Review: The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888., David S. Bogen
David S. Bogen
No abstract provided.
Recent Decisions Of The Supreme Court In Labor Law, David S. Bogen
Recent Decisions Of The Supreme Court In Labor Law, David S. Bogen
David S. Bogen
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Reconstruction And Reunion, 1864-88, Part One, David S. Bogen
Book Review: Reconstruction And Reunion, 1864-88, Part One, David S. Bogen
David S. Bogen
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Culture, Religion, And Indigenous People, David S. Bogen, Leslie F. Goldstein
Culture, Religion, And Indigenous People, David S. Bogen, Leslie F. Goldstein
David S. Bogen
The Constitution treats culture, religion, and government as separate concepts. Different clauses of the First Amendment protect culture and religion from government. For several decades, the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the First Amendment as offering religion greater protection against interference than was offered to culture, but the Supreme Court largely dissolved these constitutional differences when confronted with issues posed by the religious practices of Native Americans. With some indigenous Americans, the lines between culture, religion, and even government blur – challenging the Supreme Court’s assumptions about the Constitution. The uniqueness of the claims of Native Americans pushed …