Interpretation and construction subtopic
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Articles
1-100 out of 100 article(s)
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Author |
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Date |
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| "We won" is not an excuse for tyranny. |
Robinson, Arthur B. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
1008 |
| Decisions, decisions: this fall, the Supreme Court will hear cases that could have a major impact on American life. Here's a look at key constitutional issues they're likely to consider. |
Liptak, Adam |
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Sep 7, 2009 |
2702 |
| Our oath of office: a solemn promise. |
Rudd, Jonathan L. |
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Sep 1, 2009 |
5851 |
| Bearers Beware: What to Do If Your Company Has Bearer Shares. |
Gagie, Michael |
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Jul 17, 2009 |
1398 |
| "This Constitution": constitutional indexicals as a basis for textualist semi-originalism. |
Green, Christopher R. |
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Apr 1, 2009 |
32290 |
| An American amendment. |
Rosenkranz, Nicholas Quinn |
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Mar 22, 2009 |
3207 |
| The use and abuse of foreign law in constitutional interpretation. |
Sitaraman, Ganesh |
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Mar 22, 2009 |
15386 |
| Dangers of "judicial supremacy": the Supreme Court has perverted its role of applying the Constitution's meaning to particular cases into deciding what the Constitution means. |
Vieira, Edwin, Jr. |
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Mar 2, 2009 |
3348 |
| The myth of the written constitution. |
Pettys, Todd E. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
30361 |
| Article III as a constitutional compromise: modern textualism and state sovereign immunity. |
Menashi, Steven |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
27807 |
| A modest proposal for the legislative process. |
Cook, Brad |
Column |
Jan 16, 2009 |
746 |
| Waiver Of Privilege - More Than A State Of Mind? |
Annetta, Vincent |
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Jan 5, 2009 |
969 |
| Sodomy and guns: tradition as democratic deliberation and constitutional interpretation. |
Eskridge, William N., Jr. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
9833 |
| Manliness and the constitution. |
Kang, John M. |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
29219 |
| Policentrism, political mobilization, and the promise of socioeconomic rights. |
Ray, Brian |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
26758 |
| Court Confirms Privilege Claim Over Internal Investigation. |
Cassidy, Paul |
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Dec 12, 2008 |
701 |
| FOF's James Dobson attacks secular laws as a 'fruitcake' interpretation of Constitution. |
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Sep 1, 2008 |
452 |
| Metis Rights. |
Isaac, Thomas |
Law overview |
Jul 16, 2008 |
495 |
| Government is not the problem: although we elect individuals to public office, it is "We the People" who are the government. We have the responsibility to make our government work properly. |
Vieira, Edwin, Jr. |
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Jun 23, 2008 |
2361 |
| Pragmatism's role in interpretation. |
Easterbrook, Frank H. |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
2125 |
| Two (more) problems with originalism. |
Kramer, Larry D. |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
3846 |
| A pragmatic defense of originalism. |
McGinnis, John O.; Rappaport, Michael B. |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
7355 |
| Why conservatives shouldn't be originalists. |
Strauss, David A. |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
2765 |
| A government of adequate powers. |
Paulsen, Michael Stokes |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
5954 |
| Constituting the Constitution: understanding the American Constitution through the British cultural Constitution. |
Sheldon, Garrett Ward |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
3179 |
| Politics, constitutional interpretation, and media ecology: an argument against judicial minimalism. |
Ohlendorf, John David |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
7839 |
| Sovereign impunity. |
Twight, Charlotte |
Essay |
Mar 22, 2008 |
15445 |
| On the hypotheses that lie at the foundations of originalism. |
Harrison, John |
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Mar 22, 2008 |
4347 |
| Telstra Fails In Its Constitutional Challenge To Compulsory Access Laws. |
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Mar 6, 2008 |
779 |
| Authorizing subnational constitutions in transitional federal states: South Africa, democracy, and the KwaZulu-Natal Constitution. |
Marshfield, Jonathan L. |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
25442 |
| From Blackstone's common law duty of parents to educate their children to a constitutional right of parents to control the education of their children. |
Sedler, Robert A. |
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Dec 22, 2007 |
5228 |
| If people would be outraged by their rulings, should judges care? |
Sunstein, Cass R. |
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Oct 1, 2007 |
27738 |
| Well, should they? A response to If People Would Be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care? |
Coan, Andrew B. |
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Oct 1, 2007 |
14031 |
| On avoiding foundational questions: a reply to Andrew Coan. |
Sunstein, Cass R. |
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Oct 1, 2007 |
2487 |
| Patrolling the resource transfer frontier: economic rights and the South African Constitutional Court's contributions to international justice. |
Richardson, Henry J., III |
Essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
13822 |
| The Contemporary Presidency: Who Wants Presidential Supremacy? Findings from the Institutions of American Democracy Project. |
Aberbach, Joel D.; Peterson, Mark A.; Quirk, Paul J. |
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Sep 1, 2007 |
7492 |
| Designing a constitution-drafting process: lessons from Kenya. |
Bannon, Alicia L. |
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Jun 1, 2007 |
20651 |
| IRAQ - The Draft Law. |
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Mar 19, 2007 |
2520 |
| ECUADOR: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS AS CONGRESS AND TOP ELECTORAL COURT TRY TO REMOVE EACH OTHER'S MEMBERS. |
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Mar 16, 2007 |
1312 |
| International Treaties Over The Ordinary Federal Law. Precedent Issued By The Mexican Supreme Court. |
Araujo, Arturo Gonzalez De |
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Mar 13, 2007 |
719 |
| Why Justice Scalia should be a constitutional comparativist ... sometimes. |
Gray, David C. |
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Mar 1, 2007 |
15204 |
| Condorcet and the Constitution: a response to the law of other states. |
Rosenkranz, Nicholas Quinn |
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Mar 1, 2007 |
13757 |
| Response: on learning from others. |
Posner, Eric A.; Sunstein, Cass R. |
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Mar 1, 2007 |
2562 |
| Top criminal cases (post-charter). |
Davison, Charles B. |
Column |
Jan 1, 2007 |
1434 |
| Towards a common law originalism. |
Meyler, Bernadette |
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Dec 1, 2006 |
26432 |
| The law: the president "shall nominate": exclusive or shared constitutional power? |
Sollenberger, Mitchel A. |
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Dec 1, 2006 |
8993 |
| IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 11 - Iraq Govt. Change & War Turn. |
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Nov 20, 2006 |
532 |
| The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 14 - A Neo-Salafi State. |
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Oct 23, 2006 |
442 |
| Settlement Offers: Proposed Reform Of Part 36 Of The Civil Procedure Rules. |
Pentland, Angela |
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Oct 18, 2006 |
1015 |
| Reform Of The Danish Judicial System. |
Fogh, Peter |
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Oct 17, 2006 |
413 |
| Justice Scalia as judicial statesman. |
Bramwell, Austin W. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
3120 |
| The textual basis of the president's foreign affairs power. |
Ramsey, Michael D. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
4870 |
| The most dangerous branch abroad. |
Flaherty, Martin S. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
7210 |
| Foreign and international law sources in domestic constitutional interpretation. |
Pryor, William H., Jr. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
1078 |
| International law as a resource in constitutional interpretation. |
Neuman, Gerald L. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
5012 |
| Constitutional law and transnational comparisons: the Youngstown decision and American exceptionalism. |
Jackson, Vicki C. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
15430 |
| Foreign sources and the American constitution. |
Easterbrook, Frank H. |
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Sep 22, 2006 |
3114 |
| Why (and when) cities have a stake in enforcing the Constitution. |
Barron, David J. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
15417 |
| Holding "governance" accountable: third-party government in a limited state. |
Kennedy, Sheila Suess |
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Jun 22, 2006 |
4660 |
| The paradigm-case method. |
Rubenfeld, Jed |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
8685 |
| America's Constitution and the Yale School of Constitutional Interpretation. |
Amar, Akhil Reed |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
7285 |
| How to interpret the constitution (and how not to). |
Paulsen, Michael Stokes |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
13632 |
| Grand visions in an age of conflict. |
Powell, H. Jefferson |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
11520 |
| Reply to commentators. |
Rubenfeld, Jed |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
2803 |
| An open letter to Professors Paulsen and Powell. |
Amar, Akhil Reed |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
4797 |
| Land of the free? Under legal theories currently being developed and deployed, any individual can be imprisoned, tortured, or even executed on a presidential whim. |
Grigg, William Norman |
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Apr 3, 2006 |
1893 |
| The Rehnquist Court at twilight: the lures and perils of split-the-difference jurisprudence. |
Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III |
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Apr 1, 2006 |
12920 |
| The notion of a living constitution. |
Rehnquist, William H. |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
5606 |
| Does it take a theory? Originalism, active liberty, and minimalism. |
Ryan, James E. |
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Mar 1, 2006 |
17934 |
| The legislative branch: congress. |
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Jan 9, 2006 |
722 |
| The executive branch. |
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Jan 9, 2006 |
433 |
| The constitution's preamble. |
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Brief Article |
Dec 1, 2005 |
152 |
| The Miers pick. |
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Oct 24, 2005 |
435 |
| IRAQ - Why Failure On Oct. 15 Might Be Good. |
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Oct 10, 2005 |
354 |
| IRAQ - Chaos Scenario. |
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Oct 10, 2005 |
457 |
| IRAQ - What The Constitution Calls For. |
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Oct 10, 2005 |
1630 |
| IRAQ - US Wait Till '06. |
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Brief Article |
Oct 3, 2005 |
226 |
| IRAQ - Sistani Approves Constitution. |
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Sep 26, 2005 |
398 |
| Against foreign law. |
Delahunty, Robert J.; Yoo, John C. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
16487 |
| IRAQ - Aug 7 - Final Bid To Agree Constitution. |
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Aug 13, 2005 |
335 |
| Father of the Bill of Rights: by drafting the Virginia Declaration of Rights, on which the U.S. Bill of Rights was based, George Mason left a legacy of freedom for future generations. |
Gilmore, Jodie |
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Aug 8, 2005 |
2583 |
| IRAQ - Aug 2 - Panel Reports Progress On Charter. |
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Aug 6, 2005 |
663 |
| IRAQ - July 25 - Sunnis Return To Talks On Iraq Draft Constitution. |
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Brief Article |
Jul 30, 2005 |
291 |
| IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6- Federalism Is Spreading. |
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Jul 11, 2005 |
1365 |
| Unity constitution offers fresh hope: the vast Democratic Republic of Congo has never really functioned as a united country. Now there is hope that the temporary peace can be made permanent if a new constitution is accepted by all parties. Neil Ford reports. |
Ford, Neil |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
1475 |
| Enduring appointments: the federal judiciary. |
Ferguson, Vicki Lynn; Gilhool, Gillian |
Brief Article |
Mar 22, 2005 |
248 |
| Marriage and the law: understood properly, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution actually protects the right of states to refuse to recognize same-sex "marriages" legitimized in other states. |
Wolverton, Joe, II |
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Mar 7, 2005 |
1666 |
| The unbearable "Lite"ness of history: American sodomy laws from Bowers to Lawrence and the ramifications of announcing a new past. |
Margolies, Neil |
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Mar 1, 2005 |
16829 |
| IRAQ - A More Optimistic Perspective For Iraq. |
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Jan 17, 2005 |
1067 |
| The Constitution includes one check on the federal courts that has largely lain dormant: the power of Congress to remove matters from their jurisdiction. |
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Brief Article |
Oct 25, 2004 |
161 |
| The House made a symbolic strike against the federal courts on same-sex marriage. |
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Brief Article |
Aug 23, 2004 |
281 |
| The Constitution: use it or lose it. |
McManus, John F. |
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Aug 9, 2004 |
846 |
| In the recent Pledge of Allegiance case, Justice Thomas tried to guide the Supreme Court's church-state jurisprudence back toward the Constitution. |
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Brief Article |
Jul 12, 2004 |
272 |
| Search 'n' sniff: doggie-style fourth amendment. |
Sanchez, Julian |
Brief Article |
Jul 1, 2004 |
274 |
| Outlaw editors: change a lede, go to jail. |
Welch, Matt |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
338 |
| Olympians on the march: the courts & the culture wars. |
Bork, Robert H. |
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May 1, 2004 |
8237 |
| The Constitution and punishment. |
Chemerinsky, Erwin |
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Apr 1, 2004 |
14570 |
| Should creed or constitution guide the judiciary? "The First Amendment asks of us that we find a way, perhaps along a winding and rocky path, to allow both individual freedom and public openness in matters of religion, and to do so without allowing either concern to swallow up the other.". |
Powell, H. Jefferson |
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Mar 1, 2004 |
2270 |
| Every step you take, I'll be watching you! |
Mitchell, Teresa |
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Feb 1, 2004 |
965 |
| The connotation/denotation distinction in constitutional interpretation *. |
Birch, Christopher |
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Sep 22, 2003 |
11038 |
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