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18 Oct 2021, 7:22 am by Eugene Volokh
Political Beliefs, Including Speech: Ann Arbor & Madison Two other prominent Midwestern college towns, Ann Arbor (Mich.) and Madison (Wisc.), ban discrimination based on "political beliefs," defined as "opinion, whether or not manifested in speech or association, concerning the social, economic, and governmental structure of society and its institutions," "cover[ing] all political beliefs, the consideration of which is not preempted by state,… [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 9:07 pm
While each State is sovereign in itself, it submits that sovereignty, through the Constitution to which it accedes, to the overall authority of the United States of America -- which includes its three branches of government. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 2:00 am
While each State is sovereign in itself, it submits that sovereignty, through the Constitution to which it accedes, to the overall authority of the United States of America -- which includes its three branches of government. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 10:35 pm by James Romoser
Madison (which established the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional) and Brown v. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
If we could put the whole American body politic behind such a veil and ask them to create a new mechanism for the selection of a president, would they not be driven to adopt the mode of election that most readers of this symposium likely prefer: a national popular vote, to be conducted in a single constituency (let’s call it the collective United States of America, as opposed to fifty electorally autonomous states and the District of Columbia), with a… [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Will he lead the “transformation” that the United States desperately needs? [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In addition to his many important decisions, Story’s three-volume Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States was and remains extremely influential.Neither Marshall nor Story is an uncomplicated hero, however. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 3:56 pm by David Kopel
As Barnett explains: Spooner supplemented this interpretive claim about original public meaning with a principle of construction he took from the 1805 Supreme Court case of United States v. [read post]
25 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
He says that Madison nowhere asserted that a single state had exit rights. [read post]
14 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
But Madison nowhere asserts that if the Constitution were approved based on the new theory of self-governance, a single state or even a few disgruntled states, can dissolve it.Indeed, Madison insists, in a letter dated January 1, 1833 to Alexander Rives, that “a rightful secession requires the consent of the others, or an abuse of the compact. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Whatever may have been his later views, the Madison of 1787 could easily join with Hamilton in a basic contempt for the actualities of state governance. [read post]