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Silence And The Word, Paul Campos
Progressive Free Speech And The Uneasy Case For Campus Hate Codes, Robert F. Nagel
Progressive Free Speech And The Uneasy Case For Campus Hate Codes, Robert F. Nagel
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How To Do Things With The First Amendment, Pierre Schlag
How To Do Things With The First Amendment, Pierre Schlag
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The Pc Harangue, James Boyle
Constitutional Identity, George P. Fletcher
Constitutional Identity, George P. Fletcher
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The aim of this Article is to introduce and clarify a new way of thinking about decisions in close cases, particularly those that address basic issues of constitutional law. When constitutional language fails to offer an unequivocal directive for decision, the recourse of the judge is not always to look "outward" toward overarching principles of political morality. In an illuminating array of cases, the acceptable way to resolve the disputes and to explain the results is to turn "inward" and reflect upon the legal culture in which the dispute is embedded. The way to understand this subcategory of decisions is …