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Living With Gertz: A Practical Look At Constitutional Libel Standards, Lewis H. Larue
Living With Gertz: A Practical Look At Constitutional Libel Standards, Lewis H. Larue
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Integration Maintenance: The Unconstitutionality Of Benign Programs That Discourage Black Entry To Prevent White Flight, Rodney A. Smolla
Integration Maintenance: The Unconstitutionality Of Benign Programs That Discourage Black Entry To Prevent White Flight, Rodney A. Smolla
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Freedom And Choice In Constitutional Law, John H. Garvey
Freedom And Choice In Constitutional Law, John H. Garvey
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The constitutional rights of children, the mentally ill, and other legally incompetent persons have been the subject of much litigation in the past twenty years. In this Article, Professor Garvey develops a general theory to explain the different ways in which persons of diminished capacity can be said to enjoy constitutional protections. He first notes that, of the various constitutional provisions, only one kind -freedoms, which protect the right to make choices - pose serious difficulties when applied to persons of diminished capacity. He then proposes a hierarchy of ways in which we can attribute freedoms to such persons: the …
Freedom And Equality In The Religion Clauses, John H. Garvey
Freedom And Equality In The Religion Clauses, John H. Garvey
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The Supreme Court has been extremely puzzled about how to treat the distribution of public benefits when the pattern of distribution may cause individuals to alter their preferences in making constitutionally protected choices. When dealing with the freedom to choose an abortion, for example, the Court held that the Hyde Amendment was constitutional because the government did not interfere with freedom when all it did was offer money to make the option it preferred (childbirth) more attractive. In free speech cases, the Court has said that when the government opens up public property or offers financial incentives to speakers it …