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17 Aug 2014, 1:22 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 9:08 pm
" I used Thomas Jefferson's Monticello because Jefferson had a lot to say about the retreat from feudalism. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 7:59 am
The five members are, from left, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 11:14 am
Bond v. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 7:42 am
And like others at the hearing (on both sides of the aisle), Schumer summoned the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, pronouncing that, “if [he] were looking down,” he would agree with the proposed amendment. [read post]
29 May 2014, 10:50 am
” – but the one power he thought necessary to prevent disunion, the federal veto, was repeatedly and definitively rejected.[5]Eleven days before the Convention adjourned, Madison complained to Thomas Jefferson, in Paris at the time, that because his proposal for a federal negative of state legislation had been turned down, “the plan should it be adopted will neither effectually answer its national object nor prevent … local mischiefs. [read post]
20 May 2014, 6:08 am
(For a recent reevaluation, see Thomas Colby's essay in Northwestern Law Review.)Taken in their own terms, the coercive Article Five exchange between Congress and the states does not establish the constitutional "quality" of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
14 May 2014, 7:40 am
Louis V. [read post]
6 May 2014, 1:00 pm
The notion of a wall separating church and state, a metaphor first used by Thomas Jefferson, is that our government should be secular. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 6:59 am
Professor Barnett builds his radically individualistic view of popular sovereignty on Chisholm v. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 9:30 am
Copyright Office will host a Copyright Matters program in connection with World Intellectual Property Day at 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23,in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, located on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, SE, Washington, D.C. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 2:22 pm
In McDonald v. [read post]
13 Apr 2014, 8:59 am
Apotex Inc. v. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 4:50 am
Ever since James Madison and Thomas Jefferson put its meaning at issue in the controversy over the first Bank of the United States, much effort has been spent on determining the original meaning of “necessary and proper” in the Constitution. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 8:12 am
Finally, I'll also explain why the article's new account of the original understanding of the Necessary and Proper Clause can serve as a useful framework for addressing some of the issues presented in Bond v. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 9:00 am
Jackson v. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 4:00 am
In FCC v. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 2:50 pm
For example, Thomas Jefferson, in his proposed reform of Virginia’s penal laws, suggested eliminating the death penalty for piracy, and instead making the penalty similar to the one for aggravated robbery. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 5:46 am
Indeed, the term “separation of church and state”—a quote from Thomas Jefferson—is the most common label for the freedom of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 8:16 am
For example, Thomas Jefferson maintained that forcing a person to contribute to – much like forcing the family businesses to pay for – a cause that he or she abhorred was “tyrannical. [read post]
