Editor's note: This is the third part in a multi-part series to be published between now and November about the state's debt to teachers and state employees for their pensions and retiree health care. In 1995, fed up with the state's failure to adequately fund its pension system, critics came up with the ultimate solution. They proposed not only making it against the law not to fund the pensions but against the law of the land: the Maine Constitution.
Each of these kinds of federal law preempts inconsistent state law.2 Chief Justice Marshall reminds us in Marbury v. Madison that "[i]t is also not entirely unworthy of observation, that in declaring what shall be the supreme law of the land, the constitution itself isflrst mentioned.'"* There is no question that the Constitution trumps both statutes'4 and treaties5 in the event of conflict.6 The superiority of the Constitution to statutes and treaties isn't just a point about the lexical ordering of the three kinds of federal law in the Supremacy Clause. 14 Internationalists, as the label suggests, believe in the primacy of the international obligations of the United States, and that treaties should be superior to statutes as a matter of constitutional law.15 This is the case in many ...
This country is looked up to for its moderation, stability and impressive eco-nomic gains. But under the surface, a different reality appears to be unfolding, with potentially far-reaching con- sequences for this "model Islamic democracy. Hard-line Muslims have grown angry in recent months, demonstrating at forums held by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations known as Article 11, which wants the government to put its weight behind the constitution as the supreme law of the land. The constitution guarantees equality and freedom of worship.
... makes federal law "the supreme Law of the Land . . . anyThing in the Constitution or Laws of any ...
Gen. Ed Meese and operating under the umbrella of the Conservative Action Project has issued a highly critical analysis of Goodwin Liu, President Obama' s nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying he has "repeatedly shown a lack of respect for the Constitution as the Supreme law of the land." Alito was also confirmed with bipartisan support. * In a 2008 Stanford Law Review article, Mr. Liu wrote that judges should engage in "socially situated modes of reasoning that appeal ... to the culturally and historically contingent meanings of particular social goods in our own society" and to "determine, at the moment of decision, whether our collective values on a given issue have converged to a degree that they can be persuasively crystallized and credibly absorbed into legal d...
Rachel, born with a host of physical and mental impairments, was 5 when Loving Rachel was published. [Jane Bernstein] and her family were living in New Jersey at the time; they moved to Pittsburgh in the early '90s. But the new book, which follows Rachel through her 22n<1 birthday, is mostly about Bernstein, and her fight to get Rachel medical care, schooling, a job and - most challengingly - a home away from her mother's home. Bernstein is reflective enough to question her own standards, too. And she's sensitive enough to locate her plight in such universal dilemmas as some people's expectation that one will care for one's grown dependent children - or aging parents - even at a cost to others in the family. And surely no one who reads Rachel in the World can help wondering: If it's ...
... than once, Bernstein adduces the Constitution: "Since my daughter was unable to pursue her own h... appear in the Constitution - the law of the land. Rather, it's in the Declaration of Independence, ...
The federal government has been rightly criticized for its sneak- and-peek searches and warrantless wiretapping of law-abiding Americans under the auspices of the 2001 USA Patriot Act. These practices violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, our supreme law of the land. That's why presidential candidate Barack Obama reasonably pledged in 2008 to reform the Patriot Act once in office. But in office, he has done the opposite, pushing against reform bills in 2009 and working to further expand his surveillance authorities in 2010.
The government on Thursday unveiled 144 revised civic questions it will try out on immigrants who want to become Americans, as part of an effort to design a more meaningful citizenship test. WHAT WILL BE DIFFERENT? Under the draft questions - designed to require a better understanding of America's history and government institutions - no longer would it be sufficient to name the three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial). Applicants could also be asked why there are three branches. Like the current test, the questions are not multiple choice.
I am not a politician. I am a small business owner, a father and a grandfather, just an ordinary Californian. I've worked hard all of my life, paid my way through a private high school and college. I have a deep, abiding love of my country, and California, my adopted home state. My wife and I have been blessed with five sons and a grandson. As a lifelong conservative, I believe the Founders had it right - your voice is the only voice that counts; the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and ought to guide every action we take in the Assembly.
The 26th amendment, which granted the vote to 18-year-olds, took only three months and eight days to be ratified! Why? Simple. The people demanded it. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven took one year or less to become the law of the land, all because of public pressure. I'm for the Congressional Reform Act of 2011 which would include term limits of 12 years only; no pensions for members; each member participates in Social Security; all funds in the congressional retirement fund moves to Social Security system; members can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do; Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise and pay raises will rise by the lower of the CPI or 3 percent; members will be in the same health care system as the American people; all cont...
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