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5 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
While many critics of the United States Constitution have lamented the extreme difficulty of amending the document because of the hurdles posed by Article V’s rigorous requirements, Sandy Levinson has been prominent and prolific in highlighting how too many scholars today sing the praises of a document that is essentially unfixable and calling into question our almost religious veneration for it. [read post]
4 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
While the former course is undoubtedly preferable, past events in the United States and beyond make it crystal clear that both are possible. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
In roughly the same time period, Professor Sanford Levinson—Sandy, to his friends—published a set of essays posing essentially the same question, with one key difference. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
In Federalist No. 2, John Jay, writing of course as Publius, asserted that the Constitution had to be ratified, or else the unity of the United States, such as it was, would be lost. [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am
Consider the now infamous case, United States v. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
As Locke v. [read post]
28 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Yet, as the chapter in Wrestling with Diversity attests to, in the United States the latter is treated with more magnanimity by state officials because it is considered religious. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:33 am
I do have some quibbles with Levinson’s discussion. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 11:31 am
(Levinson Act), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Kansas (1887) and was the lone dissenter in United States v. [read post]
11 Jul 2022, 8:30 am
” Justice Alito argues that stare decisis should not require the Court to keep Casey, because, among other reasons, there has been no reliance on the right to abortion in the United States. [read post]
10 Jul 2022, 8:30 am
United States v. [read post]
10 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Bickel trusted the Court to discern our deepest “fundamental values,” such as a commitment to racial justice that required the invalidation of segregation in Brown v. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 10:05 am
” United States v. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
To a political scientist, one way is by viewing it as a power play by the rabbinate, an attempt many centuries before the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Cooper v Aaron to engage in a performative utterance establishing themselves as the “ultimate interpreters” of the document in question, whether the Torah or the Constitution. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
It is not the case that such an election process to the United States House of Representatives is required by the United States Constitution. [read post]
12 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
This controversial tool, which the Constitution says absolutely nothing about, is an example of an institutional rule that, for better or worse, has impacted constitutional development within the United States. [read post]
9 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
Andrea Katz In 1905, an Australian parliamentarian observing the United States used an unusual metaphor to describe our Constitution. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 7:00 am
To mark this celebration of Sandy’s 40 years at the University of Texas, I want to argue that constitutional faith provides a path back to democracy in the United States. [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:30 am
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable on Reforming the Supreme Court of the United States, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022. [read post]
