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A More Perfect Union, Alan E. Garfield
An Analysis Of The Legality Of Television Cameras Broadcasting Juror Deliberations In A Criminal Case, Daniel H. Erskine
An Analysis Of The Legality Of Television Cameras Broadcasting Juror Deliberations In A Criminal Case, Daniel H. Erskine
Daniel H. Erskine
Recently, ABC News broadcast the deliberations of several juries in capital murder cases into the living rooms of the American public. The latest judicial opinion to confront the problem of televising jury room deliberations in a capital criminal case took place in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The article surveys the applicable federal constitutional and statutory law, as well as state jurisprudence, relevant to the intrusion of television cameras into the jury room. Additionally, this article discusses recent Scottish and European case law addressing jury deliberation as a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
“What Is New Zealand’S Constitution And Who Interprets It? Constitutional Realism And The Importance Of Public Office-Holders”, Matthew S. R. Palmer
“What Is New Zealand’S Constitution And Who Interprets It? Constitutional Realism And The Importance Of Public Office-Holders”, Matthew S. R. Palmer
The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer
In May 2007 this article was awarded the Legal Research Foundation's Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award for the best article, essay or discrete book chapter published by a New Zealand-based author in 2005 or 2006.This article treats two, reasonably simple, questions: what is the New Zealand constitution and who interprets it? There have been few comprehensive attempts to identify, precisely and systematically, the elements of New Zealand’s constitution. This account is derived from a theoretical perspective labelled “constitutional realism” that seeks the meaning of a constitution in the real-world understandings and actions of those people involved in the application …
Elizabeth Cady Stanton On The Federal Marriage Amendment: A Letter To The President, Tracy A. Thomas
Elizabeth Cady Stanton On The Federal Marriage Amendment: A Letter To The President, Tracy A. Thomas
Tracy A. Thomas
This essay written from a historical, first-person perspective explores the parallels between the current movement for a Federal Marriage Amendment and that of the nineteenth century through the lens of feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Using the archival sources of Stanton’s articles and speeches from 1880 to 1902, the paper identifies her key arguments opposing a constitutional standard of marriage. The paper then juxtaposes Stanton’s arguments against the 2004 Federal Marriage Amendment to reveal the continued relevance and import of her insights. Stanton’s analytical platform attacked the core pretexts of federalism and gender that fueled the proposed marriage amendment in her …
Конституционное Право Иорданского Королевства, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy
Конституционное Право Иорданского Королевства, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy
Leonid G. Berlyavskiy
Jordan shows a rare example of stability in the Middle East, abilities to establish the peace connexion with the next states, to find political compromises in the country. Not last role have played in it the person and political experience of king Hussein ben-Talala, having rather considerable authority both on the Arabian world, and on the next Israel