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Take-Ings, William Michael Treanor
Take-Ings, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The word property had many meanings in 1789, as it does today, and a critical aspect of the ongoing debate about the meaning of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause has centered on how the word should be read in the context of the Clause. Property has been read by Professor Thomas Merrill to refer to "ownership" interests, by Richard Epstein in terms of a broad Blackstonian conception of the individual control of the possession, use, and disposition of resources, by Benjamin Barros as reflective of constructions through individual expectations and state law, and by the author as physical control of …
Panel: Restrictions On Freedom Of Association Through Material Support Prohibitions And Visa Denials, David Cole
Panel: Restrictions On Freedom Of Association Through Material Support Prohibitions And Visa Denials, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the 1950s, we were afraid of communism. We were afraid, in particular, of the Soviet Union, the world's second greatest superpower, which was armed with masses of nuclear warheads aimed at all our largest cities. As a result, we fought the Cold War, engaged in espionage, proxy wars, and an arms race. We also took aggressive preventive measures at home. The principal preventive measure of that period was guilt by association. We made it a crime to be a member of the Communist Party, and we created a whole administrative scheme to implement and enforce this notion of guilt …