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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : United States Supreme Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Miers lacked any experience as a judge as well as a clear record on her views on controversial issues, her nomination was immediately attacked by politicians and commentators from the entire political spectrum.
		The most common criticism was that her experience did not qualify her to deal with constitutional issues, though the White House argued that it had intentionally chosen someone from outside the court system on the suggestion of numerous U.S. senators.
		Many conservative groups also believed she lacked a clearly conservative judicial philosophy and began a concerted effort to defeat her nomination, despite comments from Bush and his political advisor Karl Rove that emphasized her personal evangelical Christian views.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /United_States_Supreme_Court (1675 words)

	Herman Belz: A living constitution or fundamental law?
		Although constitutional realists professed to view the Constitution as a social symbol around which public life was organized, they could not quite overcome their sense of amazement or incredulity at what, from their reform perspective, seemed mere fetishism blocking progressive change.
		Insofar as constitutional realism referred to an awareness of social and economic influences on constitutional development and a recognition that political institutions were a vital part of the Constitution, it described the general outlook of most students of public law and policy.
		Constitutional theory, however, is most seriously defective according to the neo-realist critique in its narrowly economic conception of man. In the traditional constitutionalist view, writes Kirk Thompson, freedom is private not public, and negative in character being defined as the absence of governmental restraints on economic pursuits.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/belz/lcfl_05.htm (10920 words)

	Going to a Museum? Resources for Educators » 3- Middle School (6-8)
		The exhibit is set up to show the evolution of his lot in life, from his cozy home in Frankfurt to the stark barbed wire at Auschwitz, and there are many special touches such as being able to see what he saw out of his windows, thus bringing an aura of reality to the experience.
		The Purpose of this trip is to show students the Constitution of the United States (including events leading up to the Constitutional Convention, ratification, and the Constitution then and now).
		Hold a mock Constitutional Convention, and either choose to be a Federalist or Anti-Federalist.
	www.teach.virginia.edu /it/projects/Museums_1/index.php?cat=14 (1629 words)

	Leiter Reports: A Group Blog
		In short, our very lives and liberty are at unprecedented risk because our press has long since disappeared into "the media"--a mammoth antidemocratic oligopoly that is far more responsive to its owners, big shareholders and good buddies in the government than it is to the rest of us, the people of this country.
		This decision is a green light to racial profiling and prolonged detention of noncitizens at the whim of the president...the decision is profoundly disturbing because it legitimizes the fact that the Bush administration rounded up and imprisoned our clients because of their religion and race.
		You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
	leiterreports.typepad.com /blog (10304 words)

	Legal Theory Blog
		That is, citizens who held a plurality of religious and moral beliefs could nonetheless agree on the constitutional essentials--the basic constitutional principles necessary for a society to satisfy the demands of justice as fairness.
		This debate raises some very interesting issues of constitutional theory--about the fundamental nature of constitutional stare decisis in two dimensions: (1) vertical, from the Supreme Court to the lower federal courts, and (2) horizontal, from the past of the Supreme Court to its future.
		From a realist perspective, a firm statement of the rule joined by a clear majority may constitute good evidence of the court’s future actions—even if the statement is unnecessary to the resolution of the dispute at hand.
	lsolum.blogspot.com /archives/2006_04_01_lsolum_archive.html (12132 words)

	Recommended Reading - A Bookstore - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		The U.S. Constitution Online is proud to present the following selection of titles for your Constitutional Reading pleasure.
		The Amendments to the Constitution : A Commentary
		Constitutional Brinkmanship : Amending the Constitution by National Convention
	www.usconstitution.net /constread.html (982 words)

	Marc Galanter
		An Introduction to a Constitutional Puzzle,” Economic and Political Weekly 13 (43/44):1812-28 (Oct. 28, 1978).
		Review of Gwyer and Appadorai, Speeches and Documents on the Indian Constitution: 1921-47, Journal of Asian Studies.
		“Caste Autonomy and the Constitution,” The Indian Advocate 5 (3and4):13-18 (July-Dec., 1965).
	www.marcgalanter.net /cv.htm (6216 words)

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