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• Constitution of the United States/Fourteenth Amend./Section 1 Rights
  ...person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.}} ...ice Roger Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slaves. The Court held that United States citizenship was enjoyed by
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. III/Sec. 2/Clause 1 Cases or Controversies
  ...isdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of ...ases or Controversies]].</span></ref> In ''[[Cohens v. Virginia]]'', Chief Justice John Marshall explained these principles, stating:
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• Constitution of the United States/First Amend./Free Speech Clause
  ...DF_00025505">''Id.'' at 1153.</span></ref> and the House and Senate agreed to final language in conference. ...not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty, p
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• Constitution of the United States/Fifth Amend.
  ...f the Fifth Amendment requires that the government pay "just compensation" to owners of private property that the government takes for public use. ...t in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property
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• Constitution of the United States/Sixth Amend.
  ...not applicable to the states by the Amendment's terms, the Court has come to protect all the rights guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment against state abri ...at one time were not considered criminal prosecutions, are now considered to be criminal prosecutions for purposes of the Amendment.<ref><span id="ALDF_
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. III/Section 1 Vesting Clause
  ...e supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Cou ...udicial power thus confers on federal courts the power to decide cases and to render a judgment that conclusively resolves each case.
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• Constitutional Law Chemerinsky/Outline I
  ...diction|Article III, Section 2]] '''limits '''the jx of the federal courts to:'<nowiki/>''''' ...tate shall be a party.”] APPELLATE JURISDICTION: The Supreme Court’s power to review decisions of other courts. Article III of the Constitution gives the
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• Constitution of the United States/Fourth Amend.
  ...e Court, however, has interpreted the Fourth Amendment to allow exceptions to the warrant requirement. ...articularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. II/Sec. 2/Clause 2 Advice and Consent
  ...ext|He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he s ...dent, acting with the advice and consent of the Senate, with the authority to make treaties for the United States.
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• Constitutional Liberties
  ...= Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice ...arches, picketing, armbands are just a few examples of expressive conduct. To deny [[Constitution_of_the_United_States#1st_Amendment_.28Basic_freedoms.29
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. I/Sec. 8/Clause 3 Commerce
  {{Clause|Clause Text|To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and w ...s, however, the Supreme Court increasingly heard cases on Congress's power to regulate commerce, with the result that its interstate Commerce Clause juri
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. I/Sec. 8/Clause 18 Necessary and Proper Clause
  {{Clause|Clause Text|To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Executi ...zes Congress to employ any means that are "appropriate and plainly adapted to the permitted end."<ref><span id="ALDF_00015006">''[[United States v. Darby
  239 KB (36,333 words) - 04:37, September 13, 2023
• Constitution of the United States/Eighth Amend.
  ...e signification." James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution (1788), ''reprinted in'' 5 The Founders' Constitution ...2) (recognizing application of prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment to states).</span></ref>
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. II/Section 4 Impeachment
  ...impeached and convicted ministers and favorites of the Crown in a struggle to rein in the Crown's power. ...es clear, however, that Members of Congress are not civil officers subject to impeachment and removal.<ref><span id="ALDF_00013845">''See'' [[{{ROOTPAGEN
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. II/Section 3 Duties
  ...between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other ...ption of its duty. Conversely, the President is not obliged by this Clause to impart information which, in his judgment, should in the public interest be
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• Constitution of the United States/Art. II/Sec. 2/Clause 1 Military, Administrative, and Clemency
  ...elating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except ...f the military, said: "Would the honorable member say that the sword ought to be put in the hands of the representatives of the people, or in other hands
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• Alan Dershowitz
  ...ecember 16, 2013|work=The Times of Israel|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=December 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/201312170153 ...witz/ | title = Contributor Alan Dershowitz | work = The Huffington Post | access-date = November 20, 2010 | df = mdy-all | archive-url = https://web.archive
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• Constitution of the United States/First Amend.
  ...y protects the freedoms of speech, press, peaceable assembly, and petition to the Government. ...uses and the Free Speech Clause. The ''Constitution Annotated'' then turns to this latter Clause, discussing interpretations of the Free Speech Clause be
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• Section 1983 Litigation/Constitutional Rights Enforceable Under § 1983
  ...Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) (Second Amendment guarantees individual right to possess gun for personal safety, not just for military service). Since ''Mc ...are unenforceable.<ref>''Id.'' at 107.</ref> When state action is alleged to violate a federal statute, the pertinent issue is whether the particular fe
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• Section 1983 Litigation/Municipal Liability
  ...8 (1978).</ref> the Supreme Court held that municipal entities are subject to § 1983 liability, but not on the basis of respondeat superior.<ref>State l ...694. The municipal “policy or practice” requisite is often very difficult to satisfy. ''See, e.g.,'' Wimberly v. City of Clovis, 375 F. Supp. 2d 1120, 1
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