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6.830 documents for description of constitutional amendments

- From colorblindness to antibalkanization: an emerging ground of decision in race equality cases.
... that has fatefully shaped our constitutional politics and law. This Article explores the confli... goal that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments embody, and to which the Nation continues to aspir... the use of race as part of suspect description does not constitute a racial classification and th...
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 120 Nbr. 6, April 2011
- How to count to thirty-four: the constitutional case for a constitutional convention.
... to all: Article V provides that amendments to the Constitution may be proposed either by two-... reasons discussed? Or would a general description of subject matter be sufficient to create a match ...
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, June 2011
- District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. (2008)
... Court has applied to enumerated constitutional rights, this prohibition-in the place where the im... Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the... poorly with the operative clause's description of the holder of that right as "the people." . . ...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Turner v. Rogers, 564 U.S. (2011)
... former does not require all the"constitutional safeguards" applicable in criminal proceedings. 38...Id., at 9-10. But amore complete description of this Court's cases is thateven when libe... aswhether "the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of theUnited States Constitution guarantee [Tu...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Let the Forces of Disruptive Innovation Operate in Government
In the business world, we have often seen the forces of "disruptive innovation" at work. Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen has written best-selling books about the inevitable process of large, bureaucratic, top-down, slow-moving businesses or industries being "disrupted" by small, nimble, innovative competitors using the latest technologies. In business, this process, while deadly for lethargic firms, eventually produces better products, superior customer service, and an upward spiral in efficiency, productivity, wealth creation, and quality of life. This raises an intriguing question: Could the beneficial process of disruptive innovation work in government? Government obviously isn't subject to the same competitive forces as are private businesses. Government operates by ...

... our presidents fail is their job description has become too large for any human to achieve. The... government, focused on its limited constitutional role, could be lean, mean, effective, and solvent.... of states to propose constitutional amendments. Those tools have been lost or have been inoperabl...
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- December 07, 2010
- Michigan v. Bryant, 562 U.S. (2011)
...BRYANT Opinion of the Court and description of the shooter and the location of theshoo... Clause of the Sixth Amendmentstates: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused ... reflected in the text of the constitutional provision must fairly be said to mark out not mere...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Section 2: Judicial Power and Jurisdiction
...Constitutional restrictions are intertwined with prudential consi... questions may be "more amenable to description by infinite itemization than by generalization" i... in support of the constitutional amendments providing a bill of rights, he observed: "If they ...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. (2008)
...MCA §7(b) provides that the 2241(e) amendments "shall take effect on the date of the enactment of...5-8. . 2. Petitioners have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus. They are not barred fr... think it appropriate to begin with a description of the disastrous consequences of what the Court h...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Who's Afraid of Original Meaning?
Originalists like Justice Scalia have always considered constitutional amendments as essential to capturing original constitutional meaning; indeed, originalists have long insisted that constitutional amendment is the only legitimate way to bring about constitutional change. [...] when originalists speak of "the Constitution" they necessarily include amendments to the Constitution as such amendments may legitimately alter constitutional meaning.

... it was difficult to give a "full description of all unenumerated rights" that might be protecte...
- Policy Review
- Nbr. 164, December 2010
- The Ideological Origins of American Federalism.
... spring forth fully formed from the Constitutional Convention. Alison LaCroix has done constitutional...(12) Especially enlightening is her description of the 1773 debate between Governor Thomas Hutchin... reflected in the Second and Third Amendments as well as in the Article I provision reserving to...
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 120 Nbr. 5, March 2011