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Zoning For Child Protection: Declaring Communities Unfit For Child Rearing, James G. Dwyer
Zoning For Child Protection: Declaring Communities Unfit For Child Rearing, James G. Dwyer
James G Dwyer
Current zoning law fails to reflect the reality that some geographical areas, however suitable they might be for residence by adults, are not suitable for children, because of the social and physical environment that adult residents have created. The law governing children's welfare and family relationships likewise reflects no consideration of the impact that the quality of parents’ or potential parents’ community can have on children. Yet the world outside children's homes can dramatically affect their well being, even presenting threats to their very survival. This Article is the first to recommend that governments declare some communities unfit for residence …
Take Two Tablets And Do Not Call For Judicial Review Until Our Heads Clear: The Supreme Court Prepares To Demolish The 'Wall Of Separation' Between Church And State, Terence Lau, William Wines
Take Two Tablets And Do Not Call For Judicial Review Until Our Heads Clear: The Supreme Court Prepares To Demolish The 'Wall Of Separation' Between Church And State, Terence Lau, William Wines
Terence Lau
In this Article, we examine the issues that bring First Amendment jurisprudence to the grant of certiorari in Pleasant Grove v. Summum, scheduled for oral argument in the Supreme Court of the United States in November. We examine the historical basis for America’s religious heritage, the historical judicial treatment of the religious clauses, and the erosion of the wall of separation between church and state. We examine the Ten Commandments, finding inherent discrimination present in modern-day attempts to advance a particular version of the Ten Commandments as secular. By drawing upon Rousseau’s civic religion, we suggest alternative routes for the …