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The Citizens United majority clothed its decision in the language of our First Amendment: Corporations belong to a class of "disadvantaged persons" entitled to free speech rights. The use of the word "person" could not have been more deliberate. The purpose of our Constitution "is to keep the government off the backs of the people," according to the great 20th century defender of free speech, Justice William O. Douglas. When corporations are accorded the rights as people, they cross into a realm the government may not easily enter. Justice John Paul Stevens took the majority to task for its false revisionism, writing for the four dissenting justices that: "Unlike our colleagues, [the Framers] had little trouble distinguishing corporations from human beings, and when they constitutionali...
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This Article examines the possible effect the Supreme Court's landmark Second Amendment ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller will have on future cases brought under the Free Press Clause. Based on the text and history of the Constitution, the connection between the two Clauses is undeniable, as the Heller Court itself repeatedly suggested. Only two provisions in the entire Constitution protect individual rights to a technology: the Second Amendment's right to bear "arms" and the Free Press Clause's right to the freedom of the "press," meaning the printing press. Both rights were viewed, moreover, as pre-existing, natural rights to the Framing generation and were separately called during the Framing the "palladium of liberty" and essential to "the security of freedom in a state." The...
... to keep and bear arms for self-defense purposes.2 This landmark decision settled, once and for all... sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifi...
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According to the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, the purpose of government is to safeguard our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution the Founders later drafted therefore sought to secure those blessings "to ourselves and our posterity. Neither document talks about securing officeholders from the hazards of political opposition.
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...Subpart A: Scope and Purpose. 645.120 - What definitions apply to this part. T... of the sole unit of general local government in the service delivery area,. (2) The individual ... as provided for in State laws and/or Constitution, which has the power to levy taxes and spend funds...
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... reversed, finding RFRA to be constitutional. Held: RFRA exceeds Congress' power. pp. 512-536. ... burden is justified by a compelling government interest. RFRA prohibits "[g]overnment" from "subs... was to ingest peyote for sacramental purposes, and they challenged an Oregon statute of general ...
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I can hardly imagine a more inappropriate amendment to the U.S. Constitution than the one being debated in the U.S. Senate to ban desecration of the American flag. This addition would turn the Constitution on its head, the purpose of which is to limit the powers of government and preserve basic freedoms for individual citizens. Among the first such freedoms listed is freedom of speech.
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State Immunity . Purpose and Early Interpretation . Eleventh Amendment jur... against suits brought by foreign governments, the Court made clear the immunity flowed not from...
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Americans never have been much for pomp and ceremony. Coronations and other public spectacles were things from the old world, where bloodlines tended to matter more than hard work and initiative. Even inaugural balls, if they become too lavish, are subject to intense public criticism here. But state funerals, such as the one this week for former President Ronald Reagan, which culminates today, are different. They serve as powerful reminders of who we are and what we value as a people. The ceremony has a purpose, from the long march down Constitution Avenue past the symbols of a free government, to the hymns and patriotic music by a military band, to the casket's long repose in the Capitol rotunda -- the people's hall -- where the public can pay respects.
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This article suggests that justiciability doctrines -- particularly standing doctrine -- pose a riddle. Most constitutional constraints on the power of government have a readily discernible purpose. It is difficult, however, to state the purpose of many justiciability constraints; certainly there is not general agreement on their purposes. This Article suggests that the apparent purposelessness of justiciability doctrines, as they exist today, indicates that the doctrines are fundamentally misconceived. The courts should not interpret the sparse text of Article III of the Constitution as imposing purposeless constraints on judicial power. Rather, the courts should discern such purposes as justiciability doctrines can properly serve and reconceive them in light of those purposes. In appl...
