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Fidelity, Basic Liberties, And The Specter Of Lochner, James E. Fleming
Fidelity, Basic Liberties, And The Specter Of Lochner, James E. Fleming
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I want to begin by frankly acknowledging that the group of scholars participating in the conference is more conservative than the crowd with whom I usually travel. Accordingly, at the outset, I want to say something ingratiating. Then, I will say something provocative. Here is the ingratiating part: economic liberties and property rights, like personal liberties, are fundamental rights secured by our Constitution. In fact, economic liberties and property rights are so fundamental in our constitutional scheme, and so sacred in our constitutional culture, that there is neither need nor good argument for aggressive judicial protection of them. Rather, such …
Delegation And The Constitution, Gary S. Lawson
Delegation And The Constitution, Gary S. Lawson
Faculty Scholarship
In 1690, John Locke wrote that legislators “can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in other hands.” A century later, in 1789, the federal Constitution provided that “all legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” A little more than a hundred years later, in 1892, the Supreme Court declared in Field v. Clark: “That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution.”
In 1989, nearly …
Miller V. Albright: Problems Of Constitutionalization In Family Law, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Miller V. Albright: Problems Of Constitutionalization In Family Law, Katharine B. Silbaugh
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From time to time, the Supreme Court chooses to hear a case addressing a family law issue. The family law cases accepted by the Supreme Court almost always present a constitutional challenge because absent a constitutional question, state law governs family law. Because the Supreme Court controls its docket, it is free to select only those cases that, in the view of the Court, pose particularly challenging issues. On most occasions, the Court chooses only those family law cases that present other, unrelated issues of interest to the Court.
Downsizing The Right To Petition, Gary S. Lawson, Guy I. Seidman
Downsizing The Right To Petition, Gary S. Lawson, Guy I. Seidman
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The First Amendment provides that "Congress shall make no law... abridging.., the right of the people.., to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."1 Unlike the First Amendment's speech, press, and religion clauses, this "Petitions Clause" has not spawned an extensive body of case law or academic commentary. The right to petition has been, in many ways, the First Amendment's poor relation.
Toward A Formative Project Of Securing Freedom And Equality, Linda C. Mcclain
Toward A Formative Project Of Securing Freedom And Equality, Linda C. Mcclain
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This Symposium offers an occasion to pursue two important tasks: (1) identifying normative and constitutional foundations for an affimnative governmental responsibility to engage in a "formative project" that would foster persons' capacities for democratic and personal self-government;' and (2) exploring the mix of normative and empirical inquiries necessary to shape the proper goals and parameters of such a project. These tasks are relevant to my larger project of attempting to develop a synthetic, or feminist and liberal, normative account of rights, responsibilities, and governmental promotion of good, self-governing lives.2 That account argues for governmental responsibility to foster the preconditions for …