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  • ...rewrote the speech and press clauses to read: "That Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the peopl ...of Cong. 934 (1794). However, while a member of his county's committee on public safety, Madison had promoted prosecution of Loyalist speakers and the burni
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  • ...e deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...o'' Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (1978); M. Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutiona
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  • ...be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction ...nder . . . their Authority"; to all cases "affecting Ambassadors, or other public Ministers and Consuls"; and to all cases of "admiralty and maritime Jurisdi
    935 KB (144,511 words) - 04:46, September 13, 2023
  • | book_one = American Constitutional Law: Powers And Liberties | book_two = Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice
    268 KB (42,125 words) - 13:54, June 30, 2023
  • ...compensation" to owners of private property that the government takes for public use. ...perty, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
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  • ...hin a state. The Court found that criminal prosecutions in the District of Columbia<ref><span id="ALDF_00008785">''[[Callan v. Wilson]]'', 127 U.S. 540 (1888). ...e been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confro
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  • ....2d 961, 965-966 (D.C. Cir. 1949), ''rev'd on other grounds sub nom'', ''[[Johnson v. Eisentrager]]'', 339 U.S. 763 (1950); ''[[Battaglia v. General Motors Co ...own jurisdiction and officers in the protection of property in custody of law,<ref><span id="ALDF_00025164">''[[Gumbel v. Pitkin]]'', 124 U.S. 131 (1888)
    384 KB (58,677 words) - 04:46, September 13, 2023
  • ...f state law, is covered ''infra'' [[Section 1983 Litigation/Color of State Law and State Action]]. ...McDonald v. City of Chi., 130 S. Ct. 3020 (2010). ''See also'' District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) (Second Amendment guarantees individual righ
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  • |subject=Constitutional Law I |text=Constitutional Law Connected Casebook Chemerinsky
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  • Informed by common law practices, the Fourth Amendment<ref><span id="ALDF_00000221">[[{{ROOTPAGENA ...t all; if he will tread upon his neighbour's ground, he must justify it by law.").</span></ref>
    370 KB (57,962 words) - 04:29, September 13, 2023
  • ...LDF_00020746">''[[Cantwell]]'', 310 U.S. at 304.</span></ref> Therefore, a law that burdens but does not directly regulate religious belief is not categor ...e from the 1960s through the 1980s|First Amend.: Laws Neutral to Religious Practice from the 1960s through the 1980s]].</span></ref>
    99 KB (15,193 words) - 15:51, November 7, 2023
  • ...r Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.}} ...late commerce with foreign nations, define and punish offenses against the Law of Nations and on the high seas, and regulate many aspects of the military.
    423 KB (63,941 words) - 04:44, September 13, 2023
  • ...Section 4 Impeachment]].</span></ref> This tool was inherited from English practice, in which Parliament impeached and convicted ministers and favorites of the ...., R46013, Impeachment and the Constitution 47-48 (2019).</span></ref> The practice of impeachment makes clear, however, that Members of Congress are not civil
    143 KB (21,049 words) - 04:44, September 13, 2023
  • ...such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and sha ...Clause to impart information which, in his judgment, should in the public interest be withheld.<ref><span id="ALDF_00025805">Warren, Presidential Declarations
    167 KB (25,521 words) - 04:44, September 13, 2023
  • ...ution implicitly accords to the Judicial Branch authority to interpret the law and deem legislative acts contrary to the Constitution void<ref><span id="A ...ed'' available online to Members of Congress, congressional staff, and the public in a digital, easily-searchable format.
    313 KB (45,628 words) - 04:28, September 13, 2023
  • {{Clause|Clause Text|Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise t ...endment, known as the Religion Clauses, state that "Congress shall make no law respecting an ''establishment'' of religion or prohibiting the ''free exerc
    127 KB (19,290 words) - 16:15, November 7, 2023
  • |subject=Constitutional Law |text=Constitutional Law Maggs 4th edition
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  • | subject = Entertainment Law | book_one = Entertainment, Media, and the Law
    122 KB (18,711 words) - 15:48, May 25, 2023
  • || United States Law Week || United States Law Week
    255 KB (36,483 words) - 03:50, June 1, 2020
  • ...cial whole and covered by the Commerce Clause. As such, Supreme Court case law on the meaning of "commerce" in "interstate commerce" covers movements of p ...he several States," however, does not comprise commerce of the District of Columbia or the territories of the United States. Congress's power over their commer
    286 KB (44,289 words) - 16:30, October 11, 2023
  • ...s of Constitutional Provisions'', Univ. of Wash. Sch. of Law, [https://lib.law.uw.edu/ref/consticlauses.html#oth] (listing these terms as "popular name[s] ...nd foreign commerce implied the power to make paper notes legal tender for public and private debts under the Necessary and Proper Clause).</span></ref> or c
    239 KB (36,333 words) - 04:37, September 13, 2023
  • ...ed the authority granted by Congress and were not to be given the force of law, and the captain could be held liable for damages.<ref><span id="ALDF_00024 ...horized to direct the movements of the naval and military forces placed by law at his command, and to employ them in the manner he may deem most effectual
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  • ...excessive fines guards against abuses of government's punitive or criminal-law-enforcement authority.").</span></ref> As discussed in more detail in the f ...rity.<ref><span id="ALDF_00009326">1 J. Stephen, A History of the Criminal Law of England 233-43 (1833). The statute is summarized at pages 234-35.</span>
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  • | alma_mater = Read law ...pp=107–08}}.</ref> Evarts's father, a native of Vermont, a "lawyer of fair practice and good ability,"<ref name="HeraldBio">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspape
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  • ...extending the minimum residence requirement to five years); Naturalization Law of 1802, ch. 28, 2 Stat. 153 (requiring applicants to maintain five years o ...600 (1884) ("It is enough to say that, Congress having the power to pass a law regulating immigration as a part of the commerce of this country with forei
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  • {{Infobox Law Firm | practice_areas = Full service law firm
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  • {{Clause|Clause Text|No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.}} ..., 227 U.S. 150, 161 (1913).</span></ref> The term has its roots in English law before the Founding. As the Supreme Court has explained:
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  • Agreements Act, Public Law 103-465, 108 Stat. 4809, 4983-85 Court for the District of Columbia within 180 days after the grant
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  • {{Infobox Law School |website=www.law.georgetown.edu
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  • | alma_mater =Columbia Law School ...is mother reacted to his decision to become a junior DA after an expensive Columbia education, he recalled:
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  • ...mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress ...and Consuls|Art. III, Sec. 2, Cl. 2: Original Cases Affecting Ambassadors, Public Ministers, and Consuls]].</span></ref>
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  • ...><span id="ALDF_00026226">''[[Ballin]]'', 144 U.S. at 5.</span></ref> Case law on when a House or Senate rule transgresses this standard is limited. In th ...testimony had not been before a "competent tribunal" under the District of Columbia Code.<ref><span id="ALDF_00026230">''Id.'' at 87-90.</span></ref> Writing f
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