Advertising: Not "Low Value" Speech
... This Article contends that the contemporary judicial treatment of advertising as "low value" speech is misplaced. The most obvious support for this view that commercial speech should not be given second-class status can be found in the text of the First Amendment itself. "Congress shall make no law ...
... This Article contends that the contemporary judicial treatment of advertising as "low value" speech is misplaced. The most obvious support for this view that commercial speech should not be given second-class status can be found in the text of the First Amendment itself. "Congress shall make no law ...
Proposition 209 - Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW
... different. Moreover, Proposition 209 treats race and gender preferences differently than other preferences precisely because they benefit race and gender minorities rather than groups like veterans, athletes or alumni children: this makes Proposition 209 discriminatory in the most traditional sense. ...
... different. Moreover, Proposition 209 treats race and gender preferences differently than other preferences precisely because they benefit race and gender minorities rather than groups like veterans, athletes or alumni children: this makes Proposition 209 discriminatory in the most traditional sense. ...
The Constitutional Conservatism of the Warren Court
... changed, and its needs are different. Americans today need not seek a restoration of the glory days of the Warren Court.”13 While the frustration of these scholars is understandable, it is also lamentable. It is understandable because none of the three postures toward the Warren Court—conservative a ...
... changed, and its needs are different. Americans today need not seek a restoration of the glory days of the Warren Court.”13 While the frustration of these scholars is understandable, it is also lamentable. It is understandable because none of the three postures toward the Warren Court—conservative a ...
when the supreme court is not supreme
... their own states. Though the proposal advanced in this Article does not depend on the Court’s implementation—Congress might, for instance, take the lead role—Stevens’ suggestion provides a useful starting point for closing the modern gap between formal rules and practices. The Court’s decision this ...
... their own states. Though the proposal advanced in this Article does not depend on the Court’s implementation—Congress might, for instance, take the lead role—Stevens’ suggestion provides a useful starting point for closing the modern gap between formal rules and practices. The Court’s decision this ...
Hijacking Trials Overseas: The Need for an Article
... The Constitution of the United States divides the national government into three branches and provides for the powers and limitations of each branch. Article I of the Constitution enumerates the legislative powers assigned to Congress; article II catalogues the executive powers assigned to the Presi ...
... The Constitution of the United States divides the national government into three branches and provides for the powers and limitations of each branch. Article I of the Constitution enumerates the legislative powers assigned to Congress; article II catalogues the executive powers assigned to the Presi ...
Racism
... The purpose of the Current Controversies series is to explore many of the social, political, and economic controversies dominating the national and international scenes today. Titles selected for inclusion in the series are highly focused and specific. For example, from the larger category of crimin ...
... The purpose of the Current Controversies series is to explore many of the social, political, and economic controversies dominating the national and international scenes today. Titles selected for inclusion in the series are highly focused and specific. For example, from the larger category of crimin ...
Political Constraints on Unilateral Executive Action
... power is not absolute. Rather, the president’s capacity to affect the course and contours of public policy unilaterally is conditional on the willingness of Congress and the courts to check unilateral measures. However, given the institutional weaknesses and reluctance of both the legislature and ju ...
... power is not absolute. Rather, the president’s capacity to affect the course and contours of public policy unilaterally is conditional on the willingness of Congress and the courts to check unilateral measures. However, given the institutional weaknesses and reluctance of both the legislature and ju ...
Political Institutions and Judicial Role in Comparative Constitutional
... democratic legitimacy, primarily because of problems with their party systems. Any attempt to build a theory of judicial role in those countries must therefore begin with a comparative assessment of their political institutions, and not with theories borrowed from the United States. This Article thu ...
... democratic legitimacy, primarily because of problems with their party systems. Any attempt to build a theory of judicial role in those countries must therefore begin with a comparative assessment of their political institutions, and not with theories borrowed from the United States. This Article thu ...
The Importance of Public Opinion in Security and Defence Policy
... only in the United States but also in many countries of Western Europe) resulted in a popular perception that public opinion is important mainly around elections – and that the study of public opinion consists in a more or less accurate prediction of electoral results. Not many people noticed that, ...
... only in the United States but also in many countries of Western Europe) resulted in a popular perception that public opinion is important mainly around elections – and that the study of public opinion consists in a more or less accurate prediction of electoral results. Not many people noticed that, ...
Is Public Opinion Stable? Resolving the Micro
... point in time) quickly decay (e.g., Chong and Druckman 2010). For example, when individuals receive the terrorism version of the Patriot Act question, they likely become more supportive of the Act. Yet, for the modal individual, that support quickly dissipates and, in fact, may flip if the individua ...
... point in time) quickly decay (e.g., Chong and Druckman 2010). For example, when individuals receive the terrorism version of the Patriot Act question, they likely become more supportive of the Act. Yet, for the modal individual, that support quickly dissipates and, in fact, may flip if the individua ...
Immigrant Laws, Obstacle Preemption And The Lost Legacy of
... Article III powers to hear any suit from state court "where is drawn in question the validity of a statute, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the grounds of their being repugnant to the [C]onstitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favour of their validi ...
... Article III powers to hear any suit from state court "where is drawn in question the validity of a statute, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the grounds of their being repugnant to the [C]onstitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favour of their validi ...
The Executive Branch and the Federal Bureaucracy
... led to a variety of new programs and a much bigger government. The G.I. (Government Issue) Bill, for example, provided college loans for returning veterans and reduced mortgage rates to allow them to buy homes. The national government’s involvement in these programs not only affected more people but ...
... led to a variety of new programs and a much bigger government. The G.I. (Government Issue) Bill, for example, provided college loans for returning veterans and reduced mortgage rates to allow them to buy homes. The national government’s involvement in these programs not only affected more people but ...
The Impact of Tolerance on Political Behavior
... inferring the actual attitudes in question from behaviors. For example, what is the relationship between intolerance and actual votes for extremist parties or support for extremist movements? Of course, the validity of a proposition on that question depends upon how one defines the categories extrem ...
... inferring the actual attitudes in question from behaviors. For example, what is the relationship between intolerance and actual votes for extremist parties or support for extremist movements? Of course, the validity of a proposition on that question depends upon how one defines the categories extrem ...
How does politics affect state`s capacities to manage the adjustment
... Our second, related question, concerns the distributional correlates of alternative development paths. Why is service sector expansion accompanied in some countries by increases in inequality – in others not ? Why is expansion in non-dynamic service sectors concentrated in some countries in the publ ...
... Our second, related question, concerns the distributional correlates of alternative development paths. Why is service sector expansion accompanied in some countries by increases in inequality – in others not ? Why is expansion in non-dynamic service sectors concentrated in some countries in the publ ...
protecting religious freedom after boerne v. flores
... tice system from the top and from the bottom, and gives us somewhat of a unique perspective, less unique than it used to be among politicians. There are three issues, and I will not try to address the written testimony which you have before you, and people can read, but simply try to summarize very ...
... tice system from the top and from the bottom, and gives us somewhat of a unique perspective, less unique than it used to be among politicians. There are three issues, and I will not try to address the written testimony which you have before you, and people can read, but simply try to summarize very ...
A Stakeholder Analysis of Colorado Climate and Energy Issues
... demonstrated the utility of the ACF in providing a theoretical basis for describing political contexts (see also Brecher, Brazill, Weitzman, & Silver, 2010). In understanding politics, the ACF has multiple strengths, including detailed conceptual descriptions for measuring belief systems and suggest ...
... demonstrated the utility of the ACF in providing a theoretical basis for describing political contexts (see also Brecher, Brazill, Weitzman, & Silver, 2010). In understanding politics, the ACF has multiple strengths, including detailed conceptual descriptions for measuring belief systems and suggest ...
Political Garbage and the Tale of Two Cities:
... their policy reach and political strength than at other levels of government when it comes to influencing how materials are used by firms during manufacturing and in packaging, both of which could alter the volume of resources headed towards the landfill. Policy that targets the consumer-side of the ...
... their policy reach and political strength than at other levels of government when it comes to influencing how materials are used by firms during manufacturing and in packaging, both of which could alter the volume of resources headed towards the landfill. Policy that targets the consumer-side of the ...
Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People
... —John Dewey, Education Today1 When you enter the United States Supreme Court, you pass under a motto engraved over the front entrance that reads “Equal Justice Under Law.” It is an attractive promise that the Court holds out to those of us on street level: that parties coming before the Court will b ...
... —John Dewey, Education Today1 When you enter the United States Supreme Court, you pass under a motto engraved over the front entrance that reads “Equal Justice Under Law.” It is an attractive promise that the Court holds out to those of us on street level: that parties coming before the Court will b ...
The Strategic Action Field Framework for Policy Implementation
... the most significant. Sometimes the activities undertaken on behalf of the intervention are consistent across fields, shaped by rules or resources that transcend any one field. For example, formal documents that communicate program requirements operate as rules that may be shared between SAFs, or ma ...
... the most significant. Sometimes the activities undertaken on behalf of the intervention are consistent across fields, shaped by rules or resources that transcend any one field. For example, formal documents that communicate program requirements operate as rules that may be shared between SAFs, or ma ...
The Administrative State in a Separation of Powers Constitution
... that victories won in the legislature will be taken away when laws are administered. In the Community, therefore, the multiple interest groups that influence lawmaking through the Council, Parliament, and Commission, should not be selectively shut out downstream in the policymaking process by the pu ...
... that victories won in the legislature will be taken away when laws are administered. In the Community, therefore, the multiple interest groups that influence lawmaking through the Council, Parliament, and Commission, should not be selectively shut out downstream in the policymaking process by the pu ...
Agent Counterplans - Paper - Michigan
... in significant executive orders is control; executive orders are an instrument of executive power that presidents have used to control policy, establish and maintain institutions, shape agendas, manage constituent relationships, and keep control of their political fate generally. Within the boundari ...
... in significant executive orders is control; executive orders are an instrument of executive power that presidents have used to control policy, establish and maintain institutions, shape agendas, manage constituent relationships, and keep control of their political fate generally. Within the boundari ...
the straight talk express: yes we can have a false political
... The American public has grown weary of political advertisements that manipulate the truth and focus on out of context quotes instead of substantive issues. Politicians continue to use false political ads because they are effective and virtually unregulated. Requiring a politician to endorse his own ...
... The American public has grown weary of political advertisements that manipulate the truth and focus on out of context quotes instead of substantive issues. Politicians continue to use false political ads because they are effective and virtually unregulated. Requiring a politician to endorse his own ...
Chapter 3 The Method of structured, Focused
... focus, to develop and use a different theoretical framework, and to identify a different set of data requirements. A researcher's treatment of a historical episode must be selectively focused in accordance with the type of theory that the investigator is attempting to develop. One reason so many cas ...
... focus, to develop and use a different theoretical framework, and to identify a different set of data requirements. A researcher's treatment of a historical episode must be selectively focused in accordance with the type of theory that the investigator is attempting to develop. One reason so many cas ...
Working Paper 231 - McDowall et al (opens in new window)
... a) Informing the political goal, to identify and publicise when confidence is being undermined (and/or bolstered), in order to help politicians to understand when their words or actions undermine confidence in climate policy, and to promote good practice. b) Informing research focusing on the determ ...
... a) Informing the political goal, to identify and publicise when confidence is being undermined (and/or bolstered), in order to help politicians to understand when their words or actions undermine confidence in climate policy, and to promote good practice. b) Informing research focusing on the determ ...
Laura Zuvanic and Mercedes Iacoviello, with Ana
... traditions of political patronage. A third group of countries—Bolivia, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, and the Central American countries (except Costa Rica)—have indexes below 30 points. This indicates strong politicization of decisions on selection, promotion, and dismissal; in ad ...
... traditions of political patronage. A third group of countries—Bolivia, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, and the Central American countries (except Costa Rica)—have indexes below 30 points. This indicates strong politicization of decisions on selection, promotion, and dismissal; in ad ...