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The Constitution's Accommodation Of Social Change, Philip A. Hamburger

Faculty Scholarship

Did the framers and ratifiers of the United States Constitution think that changes in American society would require changes in the text or interpretation of the Constitution? If those who created the Constitution understood or even anticipated the possibility of major social alterations, how did they expect constitutional law – text and interpretation – to accommodate such developments?

Constitutional Law, William L. Monts Iii, Jeffrey M. Nelson

South Carolina Law Review

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Constitutional Protection Of The Right To An Education, William F. Foster, Gayle Pinheiro

Dalhousie Law Journal

The education of its citizenry is often recognized as one of the most important public services provided by the state. The history of the rise and development of public education in the provinces of Canada reveals, above all, the influence of the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. The educational philosophy, aims and broader objectives of the public education system reflected the moral and religious doctrines of the faith which had sponsored the founding of the institution. Yet there also existed a pervasive belief among the general populace in the power of education to support and nourish basic democratic values. Moreover, …

Constitutional Law (Kempo), Jutta Brunnée

Dalhousie Law Journal

In 1976 Carl Heymanns Verlag published the first volume of a series on Japanese law. A recent addition to this collection covering areas as diverse as civil and criminal procedure, labor law, nuclear energy law, and international law, is Miyazawa Toshiyoshi's (1899-1976) book on constitutional law. With this German translation, Robert Heuser and Yamasaki Kazuaki provide their readers with the first systematical overview on Japanese constitutional law in a western language.

Covenants And Constitutions , Richard A. Epstein

Cornell Law Review

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Cable Television And The Freedom Of Expression, Daniel Brenner

Duke Law Journal

In 1973, cable television operators primarily carried broadcast signals that could not be received adequately over the air. That year, a Cabinet-level committee recommended that regulation of cable fundamentally change when the cable industry penetrated fifty percent of U.S. homes. Instead of selecting any of their program services, the cable operators would be treated as pure carriers, leaving others to program. 1 The United States recently passed that supposed milestone. 2 Yet the 1973 policy recommendation is about as likely to get a second hearing as the Articles of Confederation. By 1975, Home Box Office had launched cable's first satellite …

Independent Agencies: Form And Substance In Executive Prerogative, Glen O. Robinson

Duke Law Journal

Among other things, the Supreme Court's decision in Morrison v. Olson, 1 upholding Congress's authorization of independent counsel to investigate and prosecute high-ranking government officials for violation of federal criminal laws, presumably will chill speculation that the Supreme Court is prepared to rethink the constitutionality of the independent agencies. Prior to the 1980s the constitutionality of the independent agencies had generally been thought secure on the strength of Humphrey's Executor. 2 Despite recurrent criticism of that decision, 3 there was no basis to think it was especially vulnerable. The Court's recent fascination with separation of powers, 4 however, invited speculation …

Government Official Torts And The Takings Clause: Federalism And State Sovereign Immunity, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, I argue that state sovereign and official immunities, insofar as they bar recovery when private parties would be liable for similar conduct, are unconstitutional under the takings clause of the fifth amendment, as applied to the states under the fourteenth.²² A state's refusal to compensate plaintiffs for the tortious damage or destruction of property should be redressed by the federal courts in civil actions brought under § 1983.

Section I of this article provides background through a discussion of the Supreme Court's treatment of the problem of torts committed by government officials, primarily in procedural due …

Constitutionalism In Asia: Asian Views Of The American Influence, Lawrence W. Beer

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

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Nationwide Preclearance Of Section Five Of The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Implementing The Fifteenth Amendment, Dwight Aarons

Scholarly Works

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Role Of The Legislative And Executive Branches In Interpreting The Constitution , John Harrison

Cornell Law Review

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Role Of The Legislative And Executive Branches In Interpreting The Constitution , Steven Ross

Cornell Law Review

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Economic Union As A Constitutional Value, Richard B. Collins

Publications

Professor Collins presents an in-depth defense of the dormant commerce power doctrine. He maintains that the text of the commerce clause, the original intent behind it, and a century of congressional acquiescence to broad judicial enforcement of the dormant commerce power lend sufficient legitimacy to the doctrine to support its continued existence. After examining the textual and historical bases for the doctrine, Professor Collins concludes that the primary purpose behind the commerce clause is the promotion of economic integration and interstate harmony. Based upon his discussion of the doctrine's origins and development, he contends that critics of the doctrine who …

The Right To Family Unification In French And United States Immigration Law, John Guendelsberger

Cornell International Law Journal

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Suicidal Rights, Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

The legal debate regarding the right to commit suicide requires a critical review of the relationship between the individual and the community in present liberal political thought. Modern liberal political thought postulates that the government or community must be neutral about what is good both for members of the community and the community itself. It also postulates that there exists a sphere of action which affects solely an individual.

The neutrality postulate and the harm of self/harm to others dichotomy are best explicated by John Stuart Mill in his essay On Liberty, in which Mill separates and categorizes the individual …

Classical Theory Of Law , Gary Peller

Cornell Law Review

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Role Of The Legislative And Executive Branches In Interpreting The Constitution , Burl Neuborne

Cornell Law Review

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Role Of The Legislative And Executive Branches In Interpreting The Constitution , Robert Nagel

Cornell Law Review

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Originalist Theories Of Constitutional Interpretation , Michael Moore

Cornell Law Review

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Conflict Between Text And Precedent In Constitutional Adjudication , Lea Brilmayer

Cornell Law Review

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Parity Reconsidered: Defining A Role For The Federal Judiciary, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Law And Mystery: Calling The Letter To Life Through The Spirit Of The Law Of State Constitutions, Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

If law is anything today, it is dispirited. It lacks life, vitality, enchantment, and vision. Neither law nor its practitioners sing—or even hum. However, there is something more, already present in America’s state constitutions if practitioners dare turn to hear it. It is the voice of the spirit of the laws of the land. It sings of a vision.

There is a strain of constitutional law, anchored by actual judicial language about the spirit of law, which participates in the discourse identified in two key law review articles—Suzanna Sherry’s “The Founders’ Unwritten Constitution,” and Thomas Grey’s “Origins of the Unwritten …

The Constitutional Protection Of Freedom Of Religion, Expression, And Association In Canada And The United States: A Comparative Analysis, Robert A. Sedler

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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Federal Courts, State Courts, And The Constitution: A Rejoinder To Professor Redish, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds

Faculty Scholarship

Reviews the life and contributions of Maryland lawyer and scholar Luther Martin (1748-1826).

Recent Development, Jonathan J. Cheatwood

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The exclusionary rule requires the suppression of evidence that agents of United States Government seize abroad in violation of the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution. In contrast, the exclusionary rule does not generally apply to overseas operations conducted by agents of a foreign country, even though the operation would violate the fourth amendment if conducted by United States officials. This dichotomy is the result of a judicial realization that the exclusion of evidence seized by foreign police in violation of the United States Constitution and presented on a "silver platter" to United States law enforcement officials cannot be …

The Role Of The Legislative And Executive Branches In Interpreting The Constitution, Robert Nagel

Publications

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The Search For An Author: Shakespeare And The Framers, James Boyle

Faculty Scholarship

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Another View: Our Magnificent Constitution, William B. Reynolds

Vanderbilt Law Review

Let me start with the observation that I regard myself to be most privileged to be a public servant at a time when we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Constitution a magnificent document that has, in my view, no equal in history and every reason to be feted. It is by now no revelation that the Framers would be aghast at the size and reach of government today; but they would also be enormously proud of how much of their legacy has endured. The vitality of the original Constitution, and its various amendments, is reflected by its ability to …

The Coercion Test And Conditional Federal Grants To The States, Donald J. Mizerk

Vanderbilt Law Review

In July of 1984 Congress amended the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982' to require the states either to raise their minimum drinking age to twenty-one or forfeit a percentage of their federal highway grant. This congressional action forced the states to make an extremely difficult decision. The states either could enact a law that their residents might not support or forego the federal highway funds that the states desperately needed to complete important highway improvements. Many states were displeased with both options and challenged the constitutionality of Congress' conditional spending program.

The states' legal challenge has initiated renewed discussion …