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Child Care Policy And The Welfare Reform Act, Peter R. Pitegoff
Child Care Policy And The Welfare Reform Act, Peter R. Pitegoff
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This article sketches the 1996 Welfare Reform Act's major changes with particular attention to federally subsidized child care for low-income families.
Romer V. Evans And The Permissibility Of Morality Legislation, S. I. Strong
Romer V. Evans And The Permissibility Of Morality Legislation, S. I. Strong
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, two of England's most respected jurists engaged in an on-going debate that would take the legal world by storm. The debate concerned whether and to what extent morality should be reflected in the law and was instigated by the publication of the Wolfenden Report, a study presented to Parliament as it considered whether to repeal certain antisodomy laws in Great Britain. On the one hand was Lord Patrick Devlin, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary later elevated to the House of Lords, Britain's highest court. Devlin opposed the conclusions contained in the Wolfenden …