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The Liberal Assault On The Fourth Amendment, Christopher Slobogin Apr 2007

The Liberal Assault On The Fourth Amendment, Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

As construed by the Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement regulates overt, non-regulatory government searches of homes, cars, and personal effects-and virtually nothing else. This essay is primarily about how we got to this point. It is fashionable to place much of the blame for today's law on the Warren Court's adoption of the malleable expectation of privacy concept as the core value protected by the Fourth Amendment. But this diagnosis fails to explain why even the more liberal justices have often gone along with many of the privacy-diminishing holdings of the Court. This essay argues that three other …


Law's Religion: Rendering Culture, Benjamin L. Berger Apr 2007

Law's Religion: Rendering Culture, Benjamin L. Berger

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article argues that constitutional law's inability to deal with religion in a satisfying way flows, in part, from its failure to understand religion as, in a robust sense, culture. Once one begins to understand the Canadian constitutional rule of law itself as a cultural form, it becomes apparent that law renders religion in a very particular fashion, and that this rendering is a product of law's symbolic categories and interpretive horizons. This article draws out the elements of Canadian constitutionalism's unique rendering of religion and argues that, although Canadian constitutionalism claims to understand religion as a culture, this is …


After 150 Years, Worst Supreme Court Decision Ever Continues To Haunt, F. Michael Higginbotham Mar 2007

After 150 Years, Worst Supreme Court Decision Ever Continues To Haunt, F. Michael Higginbotham

All Faculty Scholarship

In 1857, the Supreme Court rendered a decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, declaring that it had no jurisdiction to hear Dred Scott's claim to freedom because he was black and, therefore, not a citizen of the United States. This article argues that not only was the decision morally reprehensible, it was also based on an erroneous interpretation of the Constitution.


The Constitutional Foundations Of Chenery, Kevin M. Stack Mar 2007

The Constitutional Foundations Of Chenery, Kevin M. Stack

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court regularly upholds federal legislation on grounds other than those stated by Congress. Likewise, an appellate court may affirm a lower court judgment even if the lower court's opinion expressed the wrong reasons for it. Not so in the case of judicial review of administrative agencies. The established rule, formulated in SEC v. Chenery Corp., is that a reviewing court may uphold an agency's action only on the grounds upon which the agency relied when it acted. This Article argues that something more than distrust of agency lawyers is at work in Chenery. By making the validity of …


An Expressive Jurisprudence Of The Establishment Clause, Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Alex Geisinger Jan 2007

An Expressive Jurisprudence Of The Establishment Clause, Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Alex Geisinger

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Toward A Limited-Government Theory Of Extraterritorial Detention, Robert Knowles, Marc D. Falkoff Jan 2007

Toward A Limited-Government Theory Of Extraterritorial Detention, Robert Knowles, Marc D. Falkoff

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Looking Off The Ball: Constitutional Law And American Politics, Mark A. Graber Jan 2007

Looking Off The Ball: Constitutional Law And American Politics, Mark A. Graber

Faculty Scholarship

“Looking Off the Ball” details how and why constitutional law influences both judicial and public decision making. Treating justices as free to express their partisan commitments may seem to explain Bush v. Gore*, but not the judicial failure to intervene in the other numerous presidential elections in which the candidate favored by most members of the Supreme Court lost. Constitutional norms and standards generate legal agreements among persons who dispute the underlying merits of particular policies under constitutional attack. The norms and standards explain constitutional criticism, why only a small proportion of the political questions that occupy Americans are normally …


The People Or The State?: Chisholm V. Georgia And Popular Sovereignty, Randy E. Barnett Jan 2007

The People Or The State?: Chisholm V. Georgia And Popular Sovereignty, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Lectures and Appearances

Chisholm v. Georgia was the first great constitutional case decided by the Supreme Court. In Chisholm, the Court addressed the fundamental question: Who is Sovereign? The People or the State? It adopted an individual concept of popular sovereignty rather than the modern view that limits popular sovereignty to collective or democratic self-government. It denied that the State of Georgia was a sovereign entitled, like the King of England, to assert immunity from a lawsuit brought by a private citizen. Despite all this, Chisholm is not among the canon of cases that all law students are taught. Why not? In this …


Presidential Signing Statements And Congressional Oversight, A. Christopher Bryant Jan 2007

Presidential Signing Statements And Congressional Oversight, A. Christopher Bryant

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

In response to highly controversial statements issued by President George W. Bush upon signing various bills into law, an American Bar Association Task Force and Senator Arlen Specter both recently called for the creation of a cause of action to obtain a federal judicial declaration concerning the legal validity of future presidential signing statements. This essay argues that such legislation would be ill-advised and counterproductive. It would exacerbate existing underlying institutional infirmities. More fundamentally, the inclination to facilitate immediate resort to the judiciary for resolution of a dispute between the political branches about the President's constitutional obligations is premised on …


Marbury In Mexico: Judicial Review’S Precocious Southern Migration, M C. Mirow Jan 2007

Marbury In Mexico: Judicial Review’S Precocious Southern Migration, M C. Mirow

Faculty Publications

In attempting to construct United States-style judicial review for the Mexican Supreme Court in the 1880s, Ignacio Vallarta, president of the court, read Marbury in a way that preceded this use of the case in the United States. Using this surprising fact as a central example, this article makes several important contributions to the field of comparative constitutional law. The work demonstrates that through constitutional migration, novel readings of constitutional sources can arise in foreign fora. In an era when the United States Supreme Court may be accused of parochialism in its constitutional analysis, the article addresses the current controversy …


The Balkanization Of Originalism, James E. Fleming Jan 2007

The Balkanization Of Originalism, James E. Fleming

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Downlow On Kelo: How An Expansive Interpretation Of The Public Use Clause Has Opened The Floodgates For Eminent Domain Abuse, Eric L. Silkwood Jan 2007

The Downlow On Kelo: How An Expansive Interpretation Of The Public Use Clause Has Opened The Floodgates For Eminent Domain Abuse, Eric L. Silkwood

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Symposium - The Maryland Constitutional Law Schmooze Foreword: Making Sense Of An Eighteenth-Century Constitution In A Twenty-First-Century World, Mark A. Graber Jan 2007

Symposium - The Maryland Constitutional Law Schmooze Foreword: Making Sense Of An Eighteenth-Century Constitution In A Twenty-First-Century World, Mark A. Graber

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Original Meaning Of Original Understanding: A Neo-Blackstonian Critique, Saul Cornell Jan 2007

The Original Meaning Of Original Understanding: A Neo-Blackstonian Critique, Saul Cornell

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


What Is A Twentieth-Century Constitution?, Peter E. Quint Jan 2007

What Is A Twentieth-Century Constitution?, Peter E. Quint

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


From “Just” To “Just Decent”? Constitutional Transformations And The Reordering Of The Twenty-First-Century Public Sphere, Cindy Skach Jan 2007

From “Just” To “Just Decent”? Constitutional Transformations And The Reordering Of The Twenty-First-Century Public Sphere, Cindy Skach

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Place For Interposition? What John Taylor Of Caroline And The Embargo Crisis Have To Offer Regarding Resistance To The Bush Constitution, Bradley D. Hays Jan 2007

A Place For Interposition? What John Taylor Of Caroline And The Embargo Crisis Have To Offer Regarding Resistance To The Bush Constitution, Bradley D. Hays

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Afterword: Do We Really Believe Any Longer In The Possibility Of “Government From Reflection And Choice”? A Dour Meditation On Our Present Situation, Sanford Levinson Jan 2007

Afterword: Do We Really Believe Any Longer In The Possibility Of “Government From Reflection And Choice”? A Dour Meditation On Our Present Situation, Sanford Levinson

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Constitution Outside The Constitution, Ernest A. Young Jan 2007

The Constitution Outside The Constitution, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

Countries lacking a single canonical text define the “constitution” to include all laws that perform the constitutive functions of creating governmental institutions and conferring rights on individuals. The British Constitution, for example, includes a variety of constitutive statutes, such as the Magna Carta and the Parliament Acts. This Article proposes a thought experiment: what if we defined the U.S. Constitution by function, rather than by form? Viewed from this perspective, “the Constitution” would include not only the canonical document but also a variety of statutes, executive materials, and practices that structure our government. What these constitutive materials lack is a …


The Federal Judicial Power And The International Legal Order, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2007

The Federal Judicial Power And The International Legal Order, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Introductory Remarks: The Relationship Of Law And Morality In Respect To Constitutional Law, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 2007

Introductory Remarks: The Relationship Of Law And Morality In Respect To Constitutional Law, William W. Van Alstyne

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the consequences of a Constitution not entirely aligned with moral law. These remarks encourage all legal minds to acknowledge such gaps when they are found, although there are a variety of ways in which such acknowledgment may take shape.


Levinson And Constitutional Reform: Some Notes, Stephen M. Griffin Jan 2007

Levinson And Constitutional Reform: Some Notes, Stephen M. Griffin

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Originalism, The Living Constitution, And Supreme Court Decision Making In The Twenty-First Century: Explaining Lawrence V. Texas, Ronald Kahn Jan 2007

Originalism, The Living Constitution, And Supreme Court Decision Making In The Twenty-First Century: Explaining Lawrence V. Texas, Ronald Kahn

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Fog Of War: Checks And Balances And National Security Policy, Kenneth Ward Jan 2007

The Fog Of War: Checks And Balances And National Security Policy, Kenneth Ward

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Geographic Representation And The U.S. Congress, Frances E. Lee Jan 2007

Geographic Representation And The U.S. Congress, Frances E. Lee

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Reforms To Enhance Democratic Participation And Deliberation: Not All Clearly Trigger The Article V Amendment Process, Carol Nackenoff Jan 2007

Constitutional Reforms To Enhance Democratic Participation And Deliberation: Not All Clearly Trigger The Article V Amendment Process, Carol Nackenoff

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Demystifying Social Welfare: Foundations For Constitutional Design, Joe Oppenheimer, Norman Frohlich Jan 2007

Demystifying Social Welfare: Foundations For Constitutional Design, Joe Oppenheimer, Norman Frohlich

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Slavery And The Marshall Court: Preventing “Oppressions Of The Minor Party”?, Leslie Friedman Goldstein Jan 2007

Slavery And The Marshall Court: Preventing “Oppressions Of The Minor Party”?, Leslie Friedman Goldstein

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Two Cheers For Eighteenth-Century Constitutionalism In The Twenty-First Century, George Thomas Jan 2007

Two Cheers For Eighteenth-Century Constitutionalism In The Twenty-First Century, George Thomas

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Juvenile Curfews: Political Pandering At The Expense Of A Fundamental Right, Toni L. Conner Jan 2007

Juvenile Curfews: Political Pandering At The Expense Of A Fundamental Right, Toni L. Conner

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.