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3 Jul 2018, 11:12 am
In a Colorado Supreme Court brief I filed earlier this week, the Cato Institute and the Independence Institute argue for strict application of the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 10:35 am
The withholding of revenues forced King John to parlay with his nobles at Runnymede, yielding Magna Carta. [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 7:51 am
The Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791, was generally understood as applying only to the federal government. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 3:23 am
On the contrary, 10 American colonies between 1606 and 1701 were granted charters that included representative assemblies and promised the colonists the basic rights of Englishmen, including a version of the promise in the Magna Carta that no freeman could be imprisoned or destroyed “except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. [read post]
30 May 2018, 5:55 am
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution establishes that the federal government cannot take private property “for public use without just compensation,” a principle stretching back at least 800 years to the Magna Carta.2Horne v Department of Agriculture, 576 US ___ [at pg 5] (2015). [read post]
15 May 2018, 6:00 am
These videos focus on topics such as American constitutional law, the founding fathers, and the inspiration for American constitutional rights, including the Magna Carta. [read post]
7 May 2018, 2:38 pm
The Magna Carta did two groundbreaking things. [read post]
4 May 2018, 3:18 pm
The bill (full text) provides in part:Every county, municipality, city, town, school or any other political subdivision is authorized to display, in its public buildings and on its grounds, replicas of historical documents including, but not limited to, the Ten Commandments, Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, Oklahoma Constitution and other historically significant documents in the form of statues,… [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 10:57 am
Contestación de la demanda La emplazada alega que no se ha vulnerado derecho alguno, pues el proceso de ratificación al cual se sometió el actor voluntariamente se realizó en estricta observancia del Reglamento de Procesos de Evaluación y Ratificación de Jueces del Poder Judicial y Fiscales del Ministerio Público; agregando que el Consejo actuó en ejercicio de las atribuciones conferidas por el artículo 154 de la Constitución; que… [read post]
28 Mar 2018, 11:41 am
In the years since its enactment in 1996, Section 230 has been characterized as “the Magna Carta of the internet,” as Alan Rozenshtein wrote recently on Lawfare. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 4:24 am
Judiciary Law §487 is an ancient part of the common law, so old that it was enacted merely 30 years after the Magna Carta. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
” And the law signals that Congress is playing for keeps; if it’s willing to amend the Magna Carta of the internet, it’s hard to imagine any area of technological regulation that’s off limits. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 4:45 am
Por un lado, los parlamentarios ya dejaron en claro que la Carta Magna no tiene más valor que sus deseos de no dejar sus cargos; por eso modificaron en tiempo récord las condiciones de la moción de censura y la cuestión de confianza. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 6:14 am
Para Gilbert Violeta, como el artículo no especifica el concepto "norma" y se dictara una Resolución Directoral o un Decreto de Alcaldía que contrarie el mandato de la Carta Magna no tendría efecto alguno porque la Constitución NO las indica.El Consejo de Ministros está formado por Ministros y todos son responsables de sus acuerdos, si el Premier plantea la cuestión de confianza lo hace en NOMBRE del Consejo si esta… [read post]
10 Mar 2018, 3:38 am
¡¡¡Hay que modificar la Constitución gritan los oficialistas para que al Reglamento pueda incorporarse una disposición que resuelva alguna oscuridad en la redacción de la Carta Magna!!! [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 5:13 am
(This line of argument resonates with the more general proposition that the due process clause embodies the Magna Carta principle that detention must always rest on the actual “law of the land” rather than on executive discretion.) [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 2:25 pm
My colleague Beth Colgan has written at length about this in her Reviving the Excessive Fines Clause (pp. 330-36), also noting some Framing-era statutes that seem to fit the Magna Carta / Blackstone approach. [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 9:32 am
The Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791, was generally understood as applying only to the federal government. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 2:37 am
The English Bill of Rights reaffirmed some rights guaranteed to subjects that dated back to the Magna Carta but had been abridged during later conflicts in Great Britain. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 6:50 pm
Second, although common law countries rightfully celebrate their connection to the English legal and constitutional tradition that stretches back to the Magna Carta in 1215, the reality is the legal procedures and evidentiary standards of Elizabethan England fell far short of anything we would recognize today as due process. [read post]
