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The Constitution, The White House, And The Military Hiv Ban: A New Threshold For Presidential Non-Defense Of Statutes, Chrysanthe Gussis Dec 1997

The Constitution, The White House, And The Military Hiv Ban: A New Threshold For Presidential Non-Defense Of Statutes, Chrysanthe Gussis

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The President's constitutional duty to 'take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" implies that the President is entrusted with the responsibility to defend those laws against court challenges. On occasion, however, Presidents faced with legislation that they deem unconstitutional have declined to defend that legislation against legal challenges. On February 10, 1996, President Clinton declined to defend a provision included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 that required discharge from the military of all HIV-positive servicemembers because he believed that the provision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This Note explores whether …


Appendix To Report On The Death Of Vincent W. Foster Jr., Containing Comments Of Kevin Fornshill, Helen Dickey, And Patrick Knowlton, Kenneth W. Starr Jan 1997

Appendix To Report On The Death Of Vincent W. Foster Jr., Containing Comments Of Kevin Fornshill, Helen Dickey, And Patrick Knowlton, Kenneth W. Starr

Federal Documents

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Report On The Death Of Vincent W. Foster Jr., By The Office Of Independent Counsel In Re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association, Kenneth W. Starr Jan 1997

Report On The Death Of Vincent W. Foster Jr., By The Office Of Independent Counsel In Re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association, Kenneth W. Starr

Federal Documents

In accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 594(h), the Office of Independent Counsel In re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association (the OIC) files this summary report on the 1993 death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr.


Federal Reserve: History, Purposes And Functions - An Analysis, Mukunda Lakshamanarao Jan 1997

Federal Reserve: History, Purposes And Functions - An Analysis, Mukunda Lakshamanarao

LLM Theses and Essays

On December 23, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Federal Reserve Act. With this law, Congress established a central banking system which would enable the world’s most powerful industrial nation to manage its money and credit more effectively than ever before. The political and legislative struggle to create the Federal Reserve System was long and often bitter, and this final product in 1913 was the result of a carefully crafted and somewhat tenuous political compromise between national and regional powers. Since its founding, the Federal Reserve System has evolved to meet the needs of a changing financial system …