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9 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
Previous inductees include former US presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the great French author Victor Hugo and inventor Thomas Edison, as well as more current names such as Marshall Phelps formerly head of IP at both IBM and Microsoft, Dolores Hanna, the first female president of the International Trademark Association and British judge Lord Justice Robin Jacob. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 4:38 pm
Here’s an excerpt from that decision; the same result was reached in the case involving the other teacher: Petitioner [Alini Brito] taught Spanish at James Madison High School (JMHS) from 2003 until November 20, 2009. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 2:09 pm
” In other words, “eat dirt, James Madison. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 2:46 pm
In the words of then Secretary of State James Madison in 1806, the selection of church functionaries was an “entirely ecclesiastical” matter left to the Church’s own judgment. [read post]
21 May 2009, 2:04 pm
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 12:18 am
Main begins at the birth of the Fifth Amendment and James Madison's concern that private property rights would not be respected by the newly formed United States, and tells the stories behind many of the seminal cases on eminent domain: West River Bridge Co. v. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 7:09 am
Another four preserved the right to a jury trial in more general terms But the variations did not matter much; consistent with the common law, state courts appeared to regard unanimity as an essential feature of the jury trial.It was against this backdrop that James Madison drafted and the States ratified the Sixth Amendment in 1791. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 8:00 am
In a forthcoming article, I recount James Madison's theory of constitutional interpretation through practice -- "liquidation" -- by which a repeated course of constitutional decisions can eventually settle an uncertain point of constitutional law. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 11:21 am
March 19/23 James W. [read post]
17 Sep 2011, 10:44 am
Blake Farenthold (R-TX), claims that the Constitution only permits the federal government to provide states with “block grants. [read post]
20 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
At the same time, the system does require people of good will and capacity to make the system work.The Constitutional System Depends on Elected Representatives Who Put the Nation’s Good Ahead of their Personal AmbitionsOnce the Constitution was drafted, James Madison despaired over whether it could succeed, because there would be too few virtuous men to fill the positions of power. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 3:05 am
The new administration’s Secretary of State, James Madison, had found the commissions among the former Secretary of State’s papers, but had refused to deliver them to the appointees thereby frustrating their ability to take office. [read post]
23 May 2021, 9:01 pm
From the start, American leaders felt anxious about giving too much power to the people.In Federalist No. 10, James Madison observes that political regimes built on direct democracy “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have been in general as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm
” Such routine inspection would be one of what James Madison called “subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner that each may be a check on the other. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 9:01 pm
In their petition for certiorari-filed by James Bopp of the James Madison Center for Free Speech in Indiana-the petitioners argue that the 4th Circuit’s ruling places it “on the wrong side of [a] circuit split” relating to the constitutionality of rescue funds and reporting requirements that accompany such funds. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 3:44 pm
Notably, this included not only people with reservations about presidential power, such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, but also strong advocates of the President’s prerogatives, such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. [read post]
30 Oct 2021, 9:26 pm
James Madison didn't accept the false dichotomy, and neither did the Virginia Committee of Revisors. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 6:57 pm
Unanimity was also part of James Madison’s understanding of the right to trial by jury. [read post]
C-SPAN chairman Brian Lamb asks Chief Justice John Roberts to televise the Obamacare oral arguments.
16 Nov 2011, 7:27 am
"/"What did James Madison think about video games? [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 5:34 pm
The ex-wife, Audrey Madison Turner, felt that Ike had left everything to her through a handwritten will written two months before he died of a drug overdose in 2007 (even though the couple was already divorced). [read post]
