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A Reply To Gonzalez, Interpreting This Constitution: Another Response To Professor Van Alstyne, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1987

A Reply To Gonzalez, Interpreting This Constitution: Another Response To Professor Van Alstyne, William W. Van Alstyne

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Notes On A Bicentennial Constitution: Part Ii, Antinomial Choices And The Role Of The Supreme Court, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1987

Notes On A Bicentennial Constitution: Part Ii, Antinomial Choices And The Role Of The Supreme Court, William W. Van Alstyne

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Continuing the examination of judicial review conducted around the Constitution’s bicentennial, this article lays bare the inconsistencies in the expected tasks of the Supreme Court. Where some roles of the Court have traditionally been treated as indivisible, examining those same roles separate from one another produces an incoherent view of the Court that is difficult to compromise.


Associations' Freedom V. Freedom Of Association: Another Look At All-Male Clubs, Neal Devins Jan 1987

Associations' Freedom V. Freedom Of Association: Another Look At All-Male Clubs, Neal Devins

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A Comment On Democratic Constitutionalism, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1987

A Comment On Democratic Constitutionalism, Robert F. Nagel

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On The Constitutional Status Of The Administrative Agencies, Harold H. Bruff Jan 1987

On The Constitutional Status Of The Administrative Agencies, Harold H. Bruff

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Scholarly Reflections On The Court And The Constitution, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 1987

Scholarly Reflections On The Court And The Constitution, Michael Ashley Stein

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Siamese Essays: (I) Cts Corp. V. Dynamics Corp. Of America And Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine; (Ii) Extraterritorial State Legislation, Donald H. Regan Jan 1987

Siamese Essays: (I) Cts Corp. V. Dynamics Corp. Of America And Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine; (Ii) Extraterritorial State Legislation, Donald H. Regan

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What follows is two essays, related as Siamese twins. Both essays developed from a single conception. They are distinct, but they remain connected by a shared subtopic. The first essay is about CTS Corp. v. Dynamics Corp. of America1 as a contribution to dormant commerce clause doctrine. The second essay is about the constitutional principle that states may not legislate extraterritorially, which I shall refer to as the "extraterritoriality principle." The shared subtopic is the extraterritoriality problem in CTS. (There is an extraterritoriality problem in CTS, even though the Court does not discuss it in those terms.) I could have …


Constructing A Constitution: 'Orginal Intention' In The Slave Cases, James Boyd White Jan 1987

Constructing A Constitution: 'Orginal Intention' In The Slave Cases, James Boyd White

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The question how our Constitution is to be interpreted is a living one for us today, both in the scholarly and in the political domains. Professors argue about "interpretivism" and "originalism" in law journals, they study hermeneutics and deconstruction to determine whether or not interpretation is possible at all, and if so on what premises, and they struggle to create theories that will tell us both what we do in fact and what we ought to do. Politicians and public figures (including Attorney General Edwin Meese) talk in the newspapers and elsewhere about the authority of the "original intention of …