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1.930 documents for privileges and immunities of the bill of rights

- Rescuing the Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause: How 'Attrition of Parliamentary Processes' Begat Accidental Ambiguity; How Ambiguity Begat Slaughter-House
This Essay addresses a topic of great academic and practical interest currently facing the Supreme Court: whether the Privileges or Immunities Clause, which has lain dormant since the Court's ill-conceived 1873 Slaughter-House Cases decision, should be resurrected in order to apply the Second Amendment to the states. The Essay makes the novel argument that the textual basis for the Slaughter-House Court's holding regarding the clause - i.e., the lack of parallel textual construction in the first two sentences of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment regarding citizenship) - was in fact the wholly unintentional product of what we might call "attrition of parliamentary processes." This analysis is not new to the Supreme Court. Borrowed from an oral argument made before the U.S. Supreme Co...
- The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal
- Vol. 18 Nbr. 2, December 2009
- 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.

... than the Constitution of 1 7 8 7 and the Bill of Rights of 1791. To be sure, this is an overstat... from Section I of the amendment - the Privileges or Immunities Clause and the Due Process Clause - ...
- Policy Review
- Nbr. 164, December 2010
- Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968)
... that the denial of jury trial violated rights guaranteed to him by the United States Constitutio..., the Court has looked increasingly to the Bill of Rights for guidance; many of the rights guarant.... . . In these and other situations immunities that are valid as against the federal government b... any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" se...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Corporate records, books and files
... of the State, notwithstanding the immunities and privileges in this Bill of Rights secured to t...
- Oklahoma Constitution
- The changing landscape of firearm legislation in the wake of McDonald v. City of Chicago.
... most contentiously debated amendments in the Bill of Rights. (2) Recently, legislation has restricte... right under the Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges or Immunities Clause--an argument that the petitio...
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, June 2011
- The Second Amendment, the states, and the people: as the case McDonald v. City of Chicago, which will determine if States are allowed to have gun control, wends its way to the Supreme Court, the issues are examined.
... as it may seem, since ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the Supreme Court has never pro... any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; no...
- The New American
- January 04, 2010
- Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959)
... "In these and other situations immunities that are valid as against the federal government b... the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights? The Original Understanding, 2 Stan. L. ...But, the Court noted, some of "the privileges and immunities" of the Bill of Rights, "have been ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46 (1947)
... a personal right, enumerated in the federal Bill of Rights. . Secondly, appellant relies upon the ... for their elemental provileges and immunities of state citizenship. The Slaughter-House Cases8 d...46 , 52] . rights, as privileges and immunities of state citizenship, remained unde...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Incorporation Doctrine
... doctrine whereby selected provisions of the BILL OF RIGHTS are made applicable to the states throug... that the Supreme Court might use the PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES CLAUSE of the Fourteenth Amendment ...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Fri–Jam
- The Dirty Dozen1
[...] they discuss the controversial Roe v. Wade33 as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\n55 If the authors gave the Fourteenth Amendment its full effect upon the other provisions of the Constitution, the rest of the Constitution looks very different.56 The authors agree the Fourteenth Amendment applied rights specified in the Bill of Rights against the states.57 The authors also correctly identify The Slaughter-House Cases as eviscerating the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the same Amendment.58 But the authors stop there.
- Army Lawyer, The
- Nbr. 6/2009, June 2009