Author: USA Congress House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
House Documents
Author: USA Congress House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Mr. Kirkpatrick, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, Submitted the Following Report. [To Accompany S. 3198.]
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Author: General Index to the Journals of the House of Lords
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
Author: Donald C. BaconDictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Congressional Serial Set
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
West Virginia Blue Book
Author: Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: Asher Crosby HindsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Keeping Faith with the Constitution
Author: Goodwin LiuPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199752834
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.