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§ 27.1 Introduction to Substantive Due Process Doctrine: § 27.1.1 Introduction to Fundamental Rights Doctrine. § 27.1.2 Non-Fundamental Rights Doctrine: § 27.1.2.1 Economic and Social Legislation under the Due Process Clause. § 27.1.2.2 The Birth, Life, and Death of the Irrebuttable Presumption Doctrine. § 27.1.2.3 Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine. § 27.1.2.4 Unconstitutionality of Excessive Punitive Damages Awards. § 27.2 Enumerated Fundamental Rights Under Substantive Due Process: § 27.2.1 The Original Natural Law Era. § 27.2.2 The Formalist Era. § 27.2.3 The Holmesian Era. § 27.2.4 The Instrumentalist Era. § 27.2.5 The Modern Natural Law Era: § 27.2.5.1 Selective Incorporation and the Modern Natural Law Era. § 27.2.5.2 Non-Bill of Rights "Enumerated" Fundamental Rights and the Mo...
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... some general idea of the class of civil rights meant by the phrase." At least four theories have... to the citizens of each State of the natural and fundamental rights inherent in the citizenship...
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Normative analysis is a necessary component of the discourse on natural rights and natural law that has been reactivated by the nomination hearings for Judge Robert Bork and US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Natural law must be preserved to maintain the presumption that all people possess certain rights and that the government must justify any limits placed on these rights. The debate about normative approaches and natural rights has focused on the Ninth Amendment.
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The U. S. political and legal system had been based on the Lockean natural rights doctrine. It made the country's constitutional framework a distinctly individualist system, a revolutionary one at that. The government had been demoted while citizens promoted - their sovereignty came to be identified as unalienable. This was never unchallenged but in time the dominant intellectual current turned against it. So today the most prominent legal minds in America tend to be pragmatic; rights are taken to be grants of government, by such leading jurists as Harvard's Cass Sunstein (even conservative jurists, such as Chicago's Richard Posner, disavow the natural rights tradition). Here I dispute the wisdom of this development and urge the re-embrace of the jurisprudence of the Declaration of Inde...
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... Adequate To Distinguish Positivism from Natural Law? The Possibility of Immoral Law 1. Making Sens... e.g., JOHN FINNIS, NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS 360-63 (1980); MARK C. MURPHY, NATURAL LAW IN JURI...
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The Suspension And Redistribution Of Property Rights. A. The Suspension Theory. B. Applying the Suspension Theory. 1. Ownership or Possession?. 2. Possession Rights and Rights Accruing out of Possession. 3. Potential Effect on Criminal Laws?. II. Blurring The Lines Between Natural Disaster And Civil Disturbance Looting. A. The Historical Contexts of Looting. B. The Emergent Looting Context: Hurricane Katrina Looting. C. Applicability of the Suspension Theory to Hurricane Katrina Looting. III. Constellation Of Rights: Three Hurricane Katrina Looting Scenarios. A. The Constellation of Rights Surrounding a Movable Thing. 1. Stolen Thing. 2. Abandoned Thing. 3. Lost Thing. B. Three Looting Scenarios. 1. The Necessity Looters. 2. The Luxury Looters. 3. The Wal-Mart Looters. IV. The Didact...
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§ 17.1 Foundations of . § 17.1.1 The Nature and Basis of . § 17.1.2 During the Original Natural Law Era: 1789-1873. § 17.1.2.1 Marbury v. Madison versus the Tripartite Theory of . § 17.1.2.2 Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and Federal Court Supremacy. § 17.1.3.1 During the Formalist Era: 1873-1937. § 17.1.3.2 During the Holmesian Era: 1937-1954. § 17.1.3.3 During the Instrumentalist Era: 1954-1986. § 17.1.3.4 During the Modern Natural Law Era: 1986-Today. § 17.1.4 Evaluation of . § 17.2 The Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. § 17.2.1 Federal Jurisdiction: What Article III Provides. § 17.2.2 Types of Cases for Which Federal Jurisdiction Exists. § 17.2.2.1...
... law and, as such, respects the natural rights of people subject to it. But natural law itself do...
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...Natural lawyers compare laws to moral propositions. A huma... social security and the promotion of civil rights, and they are open and adaptable enough to be used...
