Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
Dr. Perry Horse |
Sovereignty in Spiritual Perspective |
13 Saint Thomas Law Review 117 (Fall, 2000) |
When my forebears entered the Twentieth Century one hundred years ago they were dispirited because of what was lost. Gone was the old religion of K'caaw T'doh (the Medicine Lodge). Gone were the On'gaw Peenh (our own food), i.e., the buffalo. Gone were the days of a free, independent lifestyle. Gone was the old economy of self-sufficiency, hunting,... |
2000 |
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T. Alexander Aleinikoff |
Sovereignty Studies in Constitutional Law: a Comment |
17 Constitutional Commentary 197 (Summer 2000) |
Constitutional law casebooks are based on an unstated, and perhaps unrecognized, set of assumptions that link constitutional law to a strong conception of the nation-state. This is the explicit message of the periodicization of constitutional law into a Founding Period, Reconstruction, and the New Deal forward. Each stage represents a new and... |
2000 |
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Michael Peter Hatzimichalis |
Sovereignty, Federalism and Property in the Balance: a Paradox in the Making |
8 Journal of Law & Policy 707 (2000) |
Is not this disgraceful? Is this state to be brought to the bar of justice like a delinquent individual? Is the sovereignty of the state to be arraigned like a culprit, or private offender? Will the states undergo this mortification? Since 1991, the Supreme Court has been taking hearty sips from the goblet of federalism. This judicial policy of... |
2000 |
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Jianming Shen |
Sovereignty, Statehood, Self-determination, and the Issue of Taiwan |
15 American University International Law Review 1101 (Spring 2000) |
INTRODUCTION. 1102 I. TAIWAN'S ATTRIBUTES AND THE NATURE OF THE TAIWAN ISSUE. 1104 A. Historical Basis for China's Sovereignty over Taiwan. 1105 B. Legal Bases for China's Sovereignty over Taiwan. 1109 1. Historic Title as a Legal Basis. 1109 2. Invalidity of the Shimonoseki Treaty. 1110 3. Legal Effects of the Cairo/Potsdam Declarations. 1112 4.... |
2000 |
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Harold P. Southerland |
Sovereignty, Value Judgments, and Choice of Law |
38 Brandeis Law Journal 451 (Spring, 2000) |
Modern Times, Paul Johnson's account of world history from 1917 to the 1980s, opens with a chapter entitled A Relativistic World. In it, Johnson locates the origins of this troubled century's record of crisis, confusion, chaos, and death in two events, both following hard on World War I, itself the bloodiest and most destructive war in the... |
2000 |
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Kristen R. Jakobsen |
Space-age Medicine, Stone-age Government: How Medicare Reimbursement of Telemedicine Services Is Depriving the Elderly of Quality Medical Treatment |
8 Elder Law Journal 151 (2000) |
We have the technology. What is needed is government financial commitment, so argues Kristen Jakobsen in the following discussion of telemedicine. The term refers to the delivery of health care services by means of modern telecommunications technology. According to Ms. Jakobsen, the telephone, the fax machine, the Internet, and interactive... |
2000 |
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James G. Dwyer |
Spiritual Treatment Exemptions to Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think |
76 Notre Dame Law Review 147 (November, 2000) |
There are strongly opposing views as to whether parents should be exempted from the normal legal responsibility to secure medical treatment for sick or injured children when the parents have religious objections to medical care. There are some who advocate an absolute exemption, even in life-threatening situations, and some who argue that no... |
2000 |
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Douglas C. Melcher |
State Sovereign Immunity and Judicial Review of Interconnection Agreements under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
8 CommLaw Conspectus 61 (Winter 2000) |
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act), the most significant revision of federal communications law since the adoption of the Communications Act of 1934 (as amended, the Communications Act), addresses a broad range of communications issues, including the areas of common carrier, broadcast, and cable regulation. The stated goals of the... |
2000 |
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Daniel J. Meltzer |
State Sovereign Immunity: Five Authors in Search of a Theory |
75 Notre Dame Law Review 1011 (March, 2000) |
The Supreme Court's federalism jurisprudence has repeatedly been characterized as under-theorized. The three sovereign immunity decisions handed down on the Term's last day --Alden v. Maine, College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board, and Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings... |
2000 |
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Ivan Simonovic |
State Sovereignty and Globalization: Are Some States More Equal? |
28 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 381 (Summer, 2000) |
The world has always been changing, but never so rapidly and so dramatically as today. The surface of the Earth is changing daily as new buildings, new cities, and new roads emerge. Never before have there been so many newborns with life expectancies so high. But the threat to human life on planet Earth has also never been so serious. The future,... |
2000 |
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Y. Frank Chiang |
State, Sovereignty, and Taiwan |
23 Fordham International Law Journal 959 (April, 2000) |
Two separate statements made by the high officials of the two Chinese governments in 1999 call into question the sovereignty of Taiwan. One statement was made by President Lee Teng-hui of the government of the Republic of China (or ROC) on Taiwan on July 9, 1999 during an interview by German reporter, Dr. Guenter Knabe. He said that the relation... |
2000 |
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Forde Owens Fairchild |
States--sovereign Immunity--united States Supreme Court Refuses to Strip States of Their Sovereign Immunity in State Court |
76 North Dakota Law Review 659 (2000) |
Probation officers employed by the state of Maine filed suit against Maine in the United States District Court in 1992. The suit was based upon the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938, which was passed pursuant to Congress's Article I power. The probation officers claimed the state of Maine had violated this act and accordingly sought redress.... |
2000 |
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Jay Lechner |
The 1999 Amendments to the Jimmy Ryce Involuntary Civil Commitment for Sexually Violent Predators' Treatment and Care Act: a Dangerous Example of Reactionary Legislation |
12 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 147 (Fall, 2000) |
The age of positivism . claimed to have been the first to free the mad from a lamentable confusion with the felonious, to separate the innocence of unreason from the guilt of crime. Yet it is simple enough to show the vanity of this claim. I. L2-3,T3Introduction 148 II. L2-3,T3Procedures and Policies of the Jimmy Ryce Act as Amended in 1999 149... |
2000 |
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Ted L. McDorman |
The 1999 Canada-united States Pacific Salmon Agreement: Resolved and Unresolved Issues |
15 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation Litig. 1 (2000) |
After years of cross-border rancour, failed mediation, political grandstanding, flag-burning protests, and conservationally-dubious fishing practices, the governments of Canada and the United States announced in mid-1999 that they had reached a multi-year resolution of the Pacific salmon dispute. The general public greeted the announcement with a... |
2000 |
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Jason Dunn |
The 1999 Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement |
1999 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 164 (2000) |
At the time the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty (Treaty) was signed, it was heralded as an end to the on-going salmon wars between the United States and Canada over Pacific salmon fishing rights. However, the issues that lead to nearly a century of dispute proved more difficult to overcome than the framers of the Treaty imagined. In the years... |
2000 |
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David G. Savage |
The 5-4 Federalsim Chasm |
86-MAR ABA Journal 36 (March, 2000) |
The nation's nearly 5 million state employees lost their federal protection from age discrimination in January, victims of the latest states' rights pronouncement from the U.S. Supreme Court. The 5-4 vote margin was familiar, as was the lineup of the justices. The ruling broke new ground, however, in reining in Congress' power to remedy civil... |
2000 |
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Kelli Blythe Dexter |
The Bankruptcy Estate v. the State, Round 11: Recent Developments in Sovereign Immunity |
10 Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice 41 (November/December, 2000) |
On June 23 1999, the Supreme Court decided three opinions regarding sovereign immunity. A fourth opinion followed in January of 2000. This article will address developments in bankruptcy law in the area of sovereign immunity subsequent to these recent Supreme Court cases. Three of the Supreme Court cases, College Savings I, College Savings II, and... |
2000 |
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Steven Belenko |
The Challenges of Integrating Drug Treatment into the Criminal Justice Process |
63 Albany Law Review 833 (2000) |
The enforcement of anti-drug laws and the consequences of drug abuse and addiction have impacted the nation's criminal justice system in profound ways over the past twenty-five years. Police departments and other law enforcement agencies have paid increasing attention to drug crimes, legislatures have passed more and more punitive laws against the... |
2000 |
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Lily Batchelder |
The Costs of Uniformity: Federal Foreign Policymaking, State Sovereignty, and the Massachusetts Burma Law |
18 Yale Law and Policy Review 485 (2000) |
Last fall's protests at the World Trade Organization (WTO) convention in Seattle evidenced mounting pressure by states and municipalities to retain their authority to further shared values of environmental conservation, labor standards, and human rights through their government procurement policies. As one local commentator lamented, the WTO has... |
2000 |
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Erin M. Cranman |
The Dual Sovereignty Exception to Double Jeopardy: a Champion of Justice or a Violation of a Fundamental Right? |
14 Emory International Law Review 1641 (Fall 2000) |
On September 19, 1997 the body of Enrique Tello, Jr. was found by Maryland police near the home of seventeen year- old Samuel Sheinbein. Local law enforcement received reports that neighbors had seen Sheinbein and a friend wheeling a cart near the location of the body one week earlier. However, before police had a chance to question him, Sheinbein... |
2000 |
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Kenneth J. Vandevelde |
The Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties |
41 Harvard International Law Journal 469 (Spring, 2000) |
In the 1990s, one of the fastest growing areas of international law emerged from the phenomenal proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs). More than 1300 such treaties have been negotiated, involving more than 160 countries in every region of the world. By the mid-1990s, these treaties were being negotiated at the rate of one every... |
2000 |
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William E. Thro, M.A., J.D. |
The Education Lawyer's Guide to the Sovereign Immunity Revolution |
146 West's Education Law Reporter 951 (10/26/2000) |
The last years of the second millennium saw a transformation of the Supreme Court's Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence. First, in Seminole Tribe v. Florida, Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board. v. College Savings Bank, and Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, the Court severely curtailed Congress' ability to abrogate the immunity of... |
2000 |
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Ronald D. Wenkart, J.D. |
The Eleventh Amendment, Sovereign Immunity and its Impact on School Districts |
147 West's Education Law Reporter 15 (November, 9,2000) |
A quite revolution in sovereign immunity jurisprudence is changing the relationship between states and the federal government. That revolution appears to be increasing the sovereign rights of the states and decreasing the power of the federal government, particularly the power of Congress over the states. This historic shift has profound... |
2000 |
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Omar N. White |
The Endangered Species Act's Precarious Perch: a Constitutional Analysis under the Commerce Clause and the Treaty Power |
27 Ecology Law Quarterly 215 (2000) |
Provisions of the Endangered Species Act have come under attack by critics who believe that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority. Because underlying treaties do not support the view that the Endangered Species Act can be justified under the Treaty Power, the vitality of the Act rests on the Commerce Clause. The combination of the... |
2000 |
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John D. Snethen |
The Evolution of Sovereignty and Citizenship in Western Europe: Implications for Migration and Globalization |
8 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 223 (Fall, 2000) |
The relevance of international migration to globalization derives from at least three sources: the global ramifications of what many authors deem a migration crisis, the permeability of national boundaries to market growth and expansion, and the permeability of national boundaries to the migrant populations that follow economic opportunities across... |
2000 |
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Ralph Ruebner and Lisa Carroll |
The Finality of Judgment and Sentence Prerequisite in the United States-peru Bilateral Prisoner Transfer Treaty: Calling Congress and the President to Reform and Justifying Jurisdiction of the Inter-american Human Rights Commission and Court |
15 American University International Law Review 1071 (Spring 2000) |
INTRODUCTION. 1072 I. WHY PRISONER TRANSFER TREATIES AND WHAT THEY REQUIRE. 1078 A. The Impetus for Prisoner Transfer Treaties. 1079 B. The Objectives of the Prisoner Transfer Treaties. 1082 C. The Prerequisites to Transfer. 1084 1. Citizenship or Nationality. 1085 2. Double Criminality. 1086 3. Prisoner's Consent. 1087 4. Finality of Judgment and... |
2000 |
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Debra Carrasquillo Hedges |
The Forgotten Children: Same-sex Partners, Their Children and Unequal Treatment |
41 Boston College Law Review 883 (July, 2000) |
Abstract: Many of today's family relationships no longer fit within the traditional one-mother, one-father model. Families created by gay and lesbian couples are on the increase and the issues relating to the legal protections of these families remain uncertain. Many state courts and legislatures have refused to legally recognize, through... |
2000 |
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Erwin Chemerinsky |
The Hypocrisy of Alden v. Maine:judicial Review, Sovereign Immunityand the Rehnquist Court |
33 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1283 (June, 2000) |
When constitutional historians look back at the Rehnquist Court, they undoubtedly will say that its most significant changes in constitutional law were in the area of federalism. The Rehnquist Court has dramatically changed the law in three ways. First, it has narrowed the scope of Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause and under Section 5... |
2000 |
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John K. Flanagan |
The Invalidity of the Nez Perce Treaty of 1863 and the Taking of the Wallowa Valley |
24 American Indian Law Review 75 (2000) |
For many American Indians, the formation of a structured tribal organization did not take place until after their first contact with European-American settlers. In western America, where many Indians had a migratory pattern of existence, tribes held together loosely, if at all. Of the migratory Indians, those who spoke the same language and... |
2000 |
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Charles Radlauer, M.D. |
The League of the Iroquois: from Constitution to Sovereignty |
13 Saint Thomas Law Review 341 (Fall, 2000) |
L1-4,T4Introduction 342 I. L3-4,T4The Deganawidah Legend 343 II. L3-4,T4The Founding Fathers and the Iroquois 346 A. L3-4,T4Background and Intellectual Underpinnings of American Democracy 346 B. L3-4,T4The Direct Influence of the Iroquois upon the Founding Fathers 349 C. L3-4,T4Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist Theories and the Formulation of the... |
2000 |
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David S. Gray |
The Medical Treatment Hearsay Exception in Maryland: a Low Point in Clarity for Practitioners and Protection for Litigants |
29 University of Baltimore Law Review 237 (Spring 2000) |
A woman enters the office of her family practitioner, worried about a recurring headache. She fears that her ailment indicates the inception of diabetes, high blood pressure, or any number of potentially life-threatening illnesses. While she suspects the possibility of a more serious malady-the treatment of which may require medical skill and... |
2000 |
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Michael Shane French-Merrill |
The Role of the United Nations and Recognition in Sovereignty Determinations: How Australia Breached its International Obligations in Ratifying the Timor Gap Treaty |
8 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 285 (Summer 2000) |
On June 30, 1995, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided the Case Concerning East Timor brought by Portugal against Australia. By a vote of fourteen to two, the court found that it could not adjudicate upon the dispute referred to it by the Application of the Portuguese Republic for lack of jurisdiction. The court declined to exercise... |
2000 |
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Michael Shane French-Merrill |
The Role of the United Nations and Recognition in Sovereignty Determinations: How Australia Breached its International Obligations in Ratifying the Timor Gap Treaty |
8 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 285 (Summer 2000) |
On June 30, 1995, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided the Case Concerning East Timor brought by Portugal against Australia. By a vote of fourteen to two, the court found that it could not adjudicate upon the dispute referred to it by the Application of the Portuguese Republic for lack of jurisdiction. The court declined to exercise... |
2000 |
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Michael Shane French-Merrill |
The Role of the United Nations and Recognition in Sovereignty Determinations: How Australia Breached its International Obligations in Ratifying the Timor Gap Treaty |
8 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 285 (Summer 2000) |
On June 30, 1995, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided the Case Concerning East Timor brought by Portugal against Australia. By a vote of fourteen to two, the court found that it could not adjudicate upon the dispute referred to it by the Application of the Portuguese Republic for lack of jurisdiction. The court declined to exercise... |
2000 |
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Michael Shane French-Merrill |
The Role of the United Nations and Recognition in Sovereignty Determinations: How Australia Breached its International Obligations in Ratifying the Timor Gap Treaty |
8 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 285 (Summer 2000) |
On June 30, 1995, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided the Case Concerning East Timor brought by Portugal against Australia. By a vote of fourteen to two, the court found that it could not adjudicate upon the dispute referred to it by the Application of the Portuguese Republic for lack of jurisdiction. The court declined to exercise... |
2000 |
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Edward C. Lorenz |
The Search for Constitutional Protection of Labor Standards, 1924-1941: from Interstate Compacts to International Treaties |
23 Seattle University Law Review 569 (Winter 2000) |
The history of American involvement with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the international labor standards movement uncovers intriguing leadership and motivation, surprising triumph in the 1930s, and then relentless criticism. American involvement in the ILO began as an effort to overcome Supreme Court opposition to national labor... |
2000 |
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W.M. von Zharen |
The Shrinking Sea and Expanding Sovereignty: the Fate of Fisheries |
15-SUM Natural Resources & Environment 24 (Summer, 2000) |
Recently, turf wars have become very wet and salty. For centuries, the oceans were perceived as an infinite resource, filled with a seemingly limitless bounty of marine species. Within the last few decades, when it became obvious that many living marine species stocks were threatened and even depleted, increased attention was turned to deciding who... |
2000 |
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Joshua I. Schwartz |
The Status of the Sovereign Acts and Unmistakability Doctrines in the Wake of Winstar: an Interim Report |
51 Alabama Law Review 1177 (Spring, 2000) |
In response to an invitation to speak at the Court of Federal Claims symposium on retroactive legislation, I agreed to discuss the status of the sovereign acts and unmistakability doctrine defenses in the wake of the Supreme Court's Winstar decision. One objective of my presentation is to focus on the significant unresolved and ambiguous points... |
2000 |
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Curtis A. Bradley |
The Treaty Power and American Federalism, Part Ii |
99 Michigan Law Review 98 (October, 2000) |
In an article published in this Review two years ago, I described and critiqued what I called the nationalist view of the treaty power. Under this view, the national government has the constitutional power to enter into treaties, and thereby create binding national law by virtue of the Supremacy Clause, without regard to either subject matter or... |
2000 |
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Curtis A. Bradley , Jack L. Goldsmith |
Treaties, Human Rights, and Conditional Consent |
149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 399 (December, 2000) |
Article II of the Constitution grants the President the Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur. When the President obtains the Senate's advice and consent and ratifies a treaty, the treaty binds the United States internationally. If the treaty is... |
2000 |
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Michael Noone |
Treaty Implementation: Lessons Taught by U.s./u.k. Cooperation under the Nato Status of Forces Agreement |
13 New York International Law Review 39 (Winter, 2000) |
Military treaties of alliance are drafted by middle-aged staff officers and diplomatists, signed by elderly politicians, and commit the services of young soldiers, sailors and airmen both physically and mentally prepared for the violence of war. One can expect that, while stationed overseas as part of the Alliance, some of these young people will... |
2000 |
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David M. Golove |
Treaty-making and the Nation: the Historical Foundations of the Nationalist Conception of the Treaty Power |
98 Michigan Law Review 1075 (March, 2000) |
I. Text, Structure, and the Treaty Power. 1081 A. The Constitutional Setting. 1081 B. Clarifying the Issue. 1083 C. The Textual and Structural Argument for the Nationalist View. 1089 II. The Historical Roots of the Nationalist View. 1100 A . Original Intent and the Treaty Power. 1102 1. The Experience Under the Articles of Confederation. 1102 a.... |
2000 |
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John W. Parry |
Trend - the Supreme Court and the Ada: Sovereign Immunity Musical Chairs |
24 Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter 186 (March/April, 2000) |
In the near future, the Supreme Court will be considering arguments in a key case involving the constitutionality of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., as applied to the states. However, it will not be one of the two cases the Court had originally decided to review this term under Titles I, 42 U.S.C. §§12111-12117,... |
2000 |
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William P. Marshall |
What Is the Matter with Equality?: an Assessment of the Equal Treatment of Religion and Nonreligion in First Amendment Jurisprudence |
75 Indiana Law Journal 193 (Winter, 2000) |
The one point on which all the participants in this Symposium agree is that current Supreme Court decisions interpreting the religion clause are heavily influenced by equality considerations. The Court, with limited exception, has indicated that, for constitutional purposes, religion should be treated equally with nonreligion. This means that... |
2000 |
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Brett W. King |
Wild Political Dreaming: Historical Context, Popular Sovereignty, and Supermajority Rules |
2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 609 (April, 2000) |
In America--a democracy founded on a belief in popular sovereignty--most people agree that, at least at some level, the fundamental principle of majority rule should prevail, and that political decisions may be made by the majority simply because it is the majority. However, most people also recognize that certain issues may legitimately require... |
2000 |
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Jake C. Blavat |
Wisconsin Bell v. Public Servicecommission of Wisconsin: Problems in the Telecommunications Act in the New Age of Sovereign Immunity |
2000 Wisconsin Law Review 1149 (2000) |
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the Act) was signed into law on February 8, 1996, and marked a fundamental shift in public telecommunications policy. The twin goals of Act were to deregulate the telecommunications industry and to promote competition in local phone service markets. This second purpose is not only the most important, but... |
2000 |
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2. Federalism--state Sovereign Immunity--constructive Waiver Doctrine. |
113 Harvard Law Review 213 (November, 1999) |
To compensate individuals for harm suffered and to reduce the likelihood of non-compliance, Congress has amended the statutes underlying a range of federal programs to subject the states to private suit in federal court. In Seminole Tribe v. Florida, however, the Supreme Court held that when Congress legislates under Article I, the background... |
1999 |
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3. Federalism--state Sovereign Immunity--congress's Power to Enact Enforcement Legislation under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
113 Harvard Law Review 223 (November, 1999) |
In his dissent in Seminole Tribe v. Florida, Justice Stevens cautioned that the decision, which prevented the use of Article I powers to abrogate state Eleventh Amendment immunity, precluded Congress from providing a federal forum for actions against the states under a broad range of federal law, including bankruptcy, environmental, copyright,... |
1999 |
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Matthew P. Harrington |
A Body Corporate and Politique: the Locus of Sovereignty in the Rhode Island Charter |
48-NOV Rhode Island Bar Journal B.J. 5 (November, 1999) |
The accumulation of all powers in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison's view of the importance of separating the powers of government has gained general acceptance among most modern political theorists. It is a... |
1999 |
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John Gibeaut |
A Peace Treaty |
85-JUL ABA Journal 56 (July, 1999) |
For Idaho's Nez Perce Indians, the return to their country of wolves and grizzly bears meant spiritual renewal. For the state's loggers, predator reintroduction might have meant a trip to the unemployment office. Call it a labor of love for the Nez Perce and a shotgun wedding for the loggers, but both have taken the same side in federal efforts to... |
1999 |
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