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Two illegal immigrants from north county joined a lawsuit filed Monday in county Circuit Court to nullify the referendum drive aimed at putting the DREAM Act on the ballot next year. Both say they qualified for in-state tuition under the law passed earlier this year - a law now suspended pending a referendum.

• Maryland Gazette
• August 04, 2011

• The Constitution and the laws of war during the Civil War.

INTRODUCTION I. LAW OF THE FOUNDING AND ANTEBELLUM PERIODS A. Allegiance and Protection B. Municipal and International Law C. War and the Alien D. The...

• Notre Dame Law Review
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 5, December 2010

• Our perfect, perfect Constitution.

I suffer from a peculiar and aggressive strain of Stockholm syndrome, the psychological tendency of kidnapping victims to identify with, and even come...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, December 2011

• Constitution, How Amended

• Georgia Constitution

• Should we have a liberal Constitution?

Here is a modest proposal: If I had the power to rewrite the United States Constitution, I would first take some time to think hard about the sort of ...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, December 2011

• Article 37(2) of the ILO Constitution: can an ILO interpretive tribunal end the hegemony of international trade law?

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE EXISTING ILO SUPERVISORY MECHANISM A. Mechanisms Relating to Observance of Conventions B. Mechanisms Relating to...

• Georgetown Journal of International Law
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, March 2011

• Constitution has Answers

In the middle of the dispute over the law governing the creation of special school districts is the Tennessee Constitution. Constitutions ought to be taken very seriously by all citizens, and Tennesseans should be especially attentive to the specific clause in question. It says that any act of the General Assembly private or local in form or effect applicable to a particular county or municipality either in its governmental or its proprietary capacity shall be void and of no effect (Article XI, Section 9).

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• July 23, 2012

• Covert War and the Constitution/Covert War and the Constitution: A Response

.2 Despite Justice Paterson's admonition, Presidents since World War II have relied extensively on CIA covert paramilitary activities in a wide range of countries to attempt to overthrow governments deemed hostile to United States interests.3 More recently, U.S. military Special Operations Forces have engaged in clandestine, anti-terrorist military activities in other countries,4 and the CIA has also waged a shadow war on several continents against terrorists.5 Modern Presidents have argued that the executive branch has the power to authorize the use of covert paramilitary force without the approval of Congress.6 Congress, has on occasion, limited or ended funding for particular covert paramilitary operations,7 but has not required the Executive to obtain congressional approval to engag...

• Journal of National Security Law & Policy
• Vol. 5 Nbr. 2, July 2012

• Who needs a constitution? In defense of the non-decision constitution-making tactic in Israel.

What ought to be the heads, the hearts, the dispositions, that are qualified, or that dare, not only to make laws under a fixed constitution, but at o...

• Albany Law Review
• Vol. 70 Nbr. 2, March 2007

• The Constitution and the political community.

The history of constitutional change in the United States is in substantial part a history of expanding the political community. Although the state pr...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, December 2011