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Constitutional Law - Federal Anti-Subversive Legislation - The Communist Control Act Of 1954, Paul R. Haerle Jun 1955

Constitutional Law - Federal Anti-Subversive Legislation - The Communist Control Act Of 1954, Paul R. Haerle

Michigan Law Review

This comment is intended as a preliminary step in an analysis of the legislative history of the act and a consideration of both its potential effectiveness and constitutional validity.

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Security And The Constitution, W. Howard Mann Jan 1955

Security And The Constitution, W. Howard Mann

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

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Federal Supremacy And State Anti-Subversive Legislation, Alan Reeve Hunt Jan 1955

Federal Supremacy And State Anti-Subversive Legislation, Alan Reeve Hunt

Michigan Law Review

State legislatures have been prompted by international tensions of recent years to enact new and stringent anti-subversive laws, thus adding to an already large body of statutes directed against various forms of subversion. Many of these statutes are open to serious objection on constitutional ·grounds. The purpose of this article is to examine those objections which are based upon the notion either that federal power in the area is exclusive or that Congress, expressly or by necessary inference, has pre-empted the field.

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Constitutional Law - Federal Occupation Of Field Of Control Of Subversives, John C. Hall S.Ed. Dec 1954

Constitutional Law - Federal Occupation Of Field Of Control Of Subversives, John C. Hall S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was chairman of the Communist Party for the western district of Pennsylvania. He was charged with willfully advocating the violent overthrow of the United States Government, and his conviction under state statute was sustained by the superior court. On appeal, held, reversed. The federal Smith Act pre-empted the field of control of subversive activities and the state law is therefore void. Commonwealth v. Nelson, 377 Pa. 58, 104 A. (2d) 133 (1954).

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Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Alien Enemy To Judicial Review Of Deportation Proceeding, Robert P. Griffin Jan 1949

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Alien Enemy To Judicial Review Of Deportation Proceeding, Robert P. Griffin

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner, a German alien enemy, had been arrested and interned during the war by virtue of broad summary powers granted the Chief Executive by the Alien Enemy Act of 1798. The act subjects alien enemies to apprehension, detention, and deportation upon order of the President "whenever there is a declared war . . . . " Under authority of the act, the President, on July 14, 1945, ordered the removal of all alien enemies "who shall be deemed by the Attorney General to be dangerous to the public peace . . . . " Though the act makes no provision …

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Constitutional Law-Martial Law-Suspension Of The Law Jan 1936

Constitutional Law-Martial Law-Suspension Of The Law

Michigan Law Review

Fifteen thousand workmen in a county struck, forced business houses to close, cut off the milk supply even to hospitals, threatened electric and water company employees with violence, stopped all transportation services, and congregated in mobs. On request of the local authorities the governor issued a proclamation suspending the right to carry arms, the right of assembly, and the right to enter or leave the county, and directed the military to disperse all crowds, picketers, or other assemblages. A striker imprisoned by the military forces sued to enjoin the governor and military officials from carrying out the proclamation on the …

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