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- Out of range: an interview with Mark Tushnet on the Second Amendment
- This September, Oxford University Press is publishing Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle Over Guns. Written by Mark Tushnet, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Out of Range explores competing interpretations of the Second Amendment and discusses how the entanglement of...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Removing the government's immunity from suit in federal cases
- [A citizen cannot sue the government without a 'right to proceed', that is, a law removing the government's immunity from suit. Current High Court doctrine holds that, in cases in federal jurisdiction, a right to proceed derives by implication from the grant of jurisdiction. This article subjects that doctrine to...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency: an interview with Judge Richard Posner
- In September, Oxford University Press published Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, written by Richard Posner, a judge on the US. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Posner's book, which explores how we might strike a balance between constitutionally protected liberties and...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Five Things to Know About The Australian Constitution
- Five Things to Know About The Australian Constitution. By Helen Irving (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004), vi + 162 pp., $32.95, pb. Helen Irving acknowledges that this book is not a "lawyers' book". Rather, it targets a general audience with an interest in the Australian political system (for handy...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Citing foreign and international law to interpret the constitution: what's the point?
- Some years ago, I was lecturing in Brazil and Argentina on constitutional issues, and I spoke one day to a group of Brazilian judges on criminal procedure and due process rights in the United States. When I was finished, up stood one very frustrated Brazilian judge who complained that when...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- Public Law
- PUBLIC LAW. By Adam Tomkins. (1) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 231. $24.95. American constitutional lawyers have always been curious about British public law. Blackstone, of course, was the most widely-read legal work in the early republic. More recently, the United States Supreme Court has construed Congress's power...
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- "Severing the connections in a complex community": the grange, the patrons of industry and the construction/ contestation of a late 19th-century agrarian identity in Ontario
- THE LEADERSHIP of the Patrons of Husbandry and the Patrons of Industry in late 19th-century Ontario offered ideological visions of class harmony, the promise of united political action through antipartyism, and the assurance of material prosperity to Ontario's farmers, the history of agrarian protest can be viewed as one of...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- State income tax jurisdiction: a jurisprudential and policy perspective
- INTRODUCTION One of the most contentious issues in state taxation is the reach of the states' jurisdiction to tax net income. The failure to resolve this issue is a leading cause of the recent dramatic decline in state corporate income tax revenues. (1) Familiar forces of change are at...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- The problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's thought
- Half a century ago, Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald surveyed the pious pleadings of an unlikely assortment of politicians who testified to Abraham Lincoln's certain endorsement for their policies. Agreeing on little else, they were all "getting right with Lincoln." The struggle to define Lincoln's place in American history began...
- Research articles 2002-03-22
- The Sovereignless State and Locke's Language of Obligation.
- Modern liberal states are founded on individual rights and popular sovereignty. These doctrines are conceptually and historically intertwined but are in theoretical and practical tension. Locke's political theory is a source for proponents of both doctrines, and the same tension that runs through modern liberal thought...
- Research articles 2000-09-01
- Constitutionalism In East Central Europe? The Case Of Slovakia Under Meciar
- In a recent issue of the East European Constitutional Review, Ewa Letowska recounts the following anecdote: A hungry traveler walks into a shady restaurant in Moscow. He sits down and inspects the menu. "I'll have the pork chops," he says. "We don't have any," answers the waiter. "Well then, I'll...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- The European systems of central banks: quo vadis?
- I. INTRODUCTION After years of unsuccessful attempts to achieve monetary integration within the area of the European Union Elf,(1) the Economic and Monetary Union EMU, as set forth under the newly designed Treaty Establishing the European Community EC Treaty,(2) entered the third and final stage of monetary integration on...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- The Perils Of Government Micromanaging The Auto Business
- One of the those oft quoted, untraceable canards about government funding is be careful what you wish for. If you take money from the Federal Government, or states and localities, often there will be catches that come with them. The perils of the U.S. auto industry illustrates that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
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- Father of the constitution: James Madison, more than any other individual, is responsible for the U.S. Constitution. But his legacy extends beyond that priceless document of ordered liberty
- James Madison is best known for the most tangible legacy he left America: the U.S. Constitution, and rightfully so. The U.S. Constitution is the oldest national constitution still in force and a model for ordered liberty to the rest of the world. But Madison's legacy extends beyond being the...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Levinson, Sanford. Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong
- Levinson, Sanford. Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong and How We the People Can Correct It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 471 pages. Cloth, $28. The fictional conceit that organizes Levinson's book is that "... Americans in 2008 will have the opportunity to vote on the...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Letters; On our constitution for Europe, art in Britain, Palestine, energy markets, Fannie Mae, Pepsi.(Letters)
- S IR -I applaud your bold attempt to draft a constitution for the European Union, and to keep it brief ("Our constitution for Europe", October 28th). I would make it even briefer. First, it is unnecessary and unwise to include the objective S IR -I applaud...
- Research articles 2000-11-18
- First Constitution Bank closing five Fairfield County branches.
- First Constitution Financial Corp. of New Haven said the board of directors of its subsidiary, First Constitution Bank, consented to the issuance of a cease and desist order by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The company has retained Rothschild InFirst Constitution Financial Corp. of New Haven...
- Research articles 1992-03-16
- Constitution Processes BofA Check Images
- VSoft Corp announced that Constitution Corporate Federal Credit Union Constitution, a New England-based cooperative wholesale financial institution with assets of $2 billion, has successfully processed incoming image files from Bank of America using it VSoft Corp announced that Constitution Corporate Federal Credit Union Constitution, a New England-based cooperative wholesale financial...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Looking at the Constitution; could Meese be right this time?
- LOOKING AT THE CONSTITUTION COULD MEESE BE RIGHT THIS TIME? In one of his fireside chats, Franklin Roosevelt said of the Constitution, "Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.' Roosevelt's speech belongs to...
- Research articles 1986-12-20
- 'Benevolent' spending defies the Constitution
- Each year since 2004, on Sept. 17, we commemorate the 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 American statesmen. The legislation creating Constitution Day was fathered by Sen. Robert Byrd and requires federal agencies and federally funded schools, including universities, to have some kind of educational program on the...
- Research articles 2006-09-13
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