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The Constitutionality Of Punishing Deadbeat Parents: The Child Support Recovery Act Of 1992 After United States V. Lopez, Ronald S. Kornreich
The Constitutionality Of Punishing Deadbeat Parents: The Child Support Recovery Act Of 1992 After United States V. Lopez, Ronald S. Kornreich
Fordham Law Review
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The Pledge Of Allegiance Problem, Abner S. Greene
The Pledge Of Allegiance Problem, Abner S. Greene
Fordham Law Review
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Consensus Of The Governed: The Legitimacy Of Constitutional Change, Raymond Ku
Consensus Of The Governed: The Legitimacy Of Constitutional Change, Raymond Ku
Fordham Law Review
What a government of limited powers needs, at the beginning and forever, is some means of satisfying the people that it has taken all steps humanly possible to stay within its powers. That is the condition of its legitimacy, and its legitimacy, in the long run, is the condition of its life. Our whole political system rests on the distinction between constitutional and other laws. The former are the solemn principles laid down by the people in its ultimate sovereignty; the latter are regulations made by its representatives within the limits of their authority, and the courts can hold unauthorized …
Constitutional Reform On Taiwan: Fulfilling A Chinese Notion Of Democratic Sovereignty?, Piero Tozzi
Constitutional Reform On Taiwan: Fulfilling A Chinese Notion Of Democratic Sovereignty?, Piero Tozzi
Fordham Law Review
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Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Faculty Scholarship
The thesis of Professor Donald Nieman's paper, "From Slaves to Citizens: African-Americans, Rights Consciousness, and Reconstruction," is that the nation experienced a revolution in the United States Constitution and in the consciousness of African Americans. According to Professor Nieman, the Reconstruction Amendments represented "a dramatic departure from antebellum constitutional principles,"' because the Thirteenth Amendment reversed the pre-Civil War constitutional guarantee of slavery and "abolish[ed] slavery by federal authority." The Fourteenth Amendment rejected the Supreme Court's "racially-based definition of citizenship [in Dred Scott v. Sandford4], clearly establishing a color-blind citizenship” and the Fifteenth Amendment "wrote the principle of equality into the …