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	United States constitutional law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, constitutional law generally refers to the provisions of the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court.
		The organic law of the United States derives in great part from that of Britain which has vested the power of judicial review in the people since 1215, when the Magna Carta was signed by King John Lackland.
		The Supreme Court's interpretations of Constitutional law are binding on the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, on the lower courts in the federal system and on all state courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_constitutional_law (918 words)

	Constitutional law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constitutional law is the study of foundational laws that govern the scope of powers and authority of various bodies in relation to the creation and execution of other laws by a government.
		Not all nation-states have constitutions, though all such states have a jus commune, or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules, that may be customary law, oral law and written law that apply in the various jurisdictions of such state.
		Thus, for example, in the case of a unitary state, the Constitution will vest ulitimate authority in one central administration and legislature, and judiciary, though there is often a delegation of power or authority to local or municipal authorities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitutional_law (360 words)

	United States Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The United States may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America.
		The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is the first and/or only language of the overwhelming majority of the population and serves as the de facto official language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
		Spanish follows English as the second-most spoken language in the United States, primarily due to the influence of recent Latin American immigrants and the fact that almost a fifth of its continental territory was originally part of Mexico, and it is a primary spoken language in some areas of the Southwest.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/United_States (6035 words)

	United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.
		The U.S. Constitution styles itself the "supreme law of the land." Courts have interpreted this phrase to mean that when laws (including state constitutions) that have been passed by state legislatures, or by the (national) U.S. Congress, are found to conflict with the federal constitution, these laws are ultra vires and have no effect.
		The United States is a common law country, and courts are obliged to follow the precedents established in prior cases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Constitution (5303 words)

	United States House of Representatives - Amendments to the Constitution
		In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
		The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
		The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States.
	www.house.gov /Constitution/Amend.html (2086 words)

	LII: Constitution
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
		In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
		The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /constitution/constitution.billofrights.html (273 words)

	The Supreme Court of the United States
		United States Law Week, a weekly law journal from BNA, summaries of cases on the court's dockets and up-to-date status information in the Supreme Court Today section.
		Later, "preliminary prints" of the United States Reports are printed, and three years later, once the Court has made its final corrections, bound volumes of United States Reports are printed.
		Johnny H. Killian and George A. Costello (eds.), The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation: annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/law/supreme.html (1398 words)

	LII: Law about...the Constitution
		This includes relationships among the states, the states and the federal government, the three branches (The Executive, Legislature, Judiciary) of the federal government, and the rights of the individual in relation to both federal and state government.
		Article VI of The United States Constitution states that the "Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all treaties made or shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the Land." See The Supremacy Clause: U.S. Constitution, art.
		The Constitution was interpreted, in 1819, as giving the Supreme Court the power to invalidate any state actions that interfere with the Constitution and the laws and treaties passed pursuant to it.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/constitutional.html (955 words)

	GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: United States Constitution
		Constitution of the United States of America as Amended: Unratified Amendments, Analytical Index (U.S. House of Representatives, via GPO Access) June 20, 2003; H.Doc.
		Constitution of the United States, Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, via GPO Access) 1992 edition (S.Doc.
		GREECE: Athenian Constitution by Aristotle (in English) Sir Frederic G. Kenyon's translation of Aristotle on the political structure (or constitution) of the ancient city-state of Athens, which is usually considered a prime inspiration for the form of government chosen for the United States.
	www.loc.gov /law/guide/usconst.html (1132 words)

	The Court, the Constitution, and the Culture of Freedom by Peter Berkowitz - Policy Review 132 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Second, the Constitution is not neutral between conservative and progressive interpretations of freedom but favors the progressive interpretation, according to which government is responsible for enlarging the sphere of individual freedom and promoting an expansive view of equality.
		Strikingly, even though his personal moral judgment is that abortion is wrong, Scalia’s constitutional objection was grounded not in morality but in a claim about freedom: In his view, the Constitution was silent about the question of abortion and therefore left it to the people to decide through their states’ democratic processes.
		To the extent that the supreme law of the land enshrines arguments and attitudes that deny personhood and life to the fetus or unborn child, and which make the determination of personhood a function of the private judgment of individuals, the Court’s abortion decisions encourage a belief in the violability of human life.
	www.policyreview.org /aug05/berkowitz.html (8013 words)

	U.S. CONSTITUTION
		Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
		The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
		On the 25th of May, seven States having convened, George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously elected President, and the consideration of the proposed constitution was commenced.
	www.house.gov /Constitution/Constitution.html (3004 words)

	Constitution Society Home Page
		The Constitution Society is a private non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education on the principles of constitutional republican government.
		This organization was founded in response to the growing concern that noncompliance with the Constitution for the United States of America and most state constitutions is creating a crisis of legitimacy that threatens freedom and civil rights.
		We also examine the related principles of federalism and nomocracy, the rule of law, of nomology, the science of law, and show how those principles are applicable to solving the fundamental problem of avoiding excessive or unbalanced concentrations of power.
	www.constitution.org (859 words)

	United States Constitutional Law Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/United_States_constitutional_law (1132 words)

	The Concept of Liberty Implicit in United States Constitutional Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The lecture will give an account of the development of the concept of liberty in United States constitutional law from its original statement through to the Supreme Court's decision in June 2003 in the Texas homosexual sodomy case.
		Ulrich K. Preuß is Professor for Public Law and Politics at the Otto-Suhr Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin.
		His diverse research interests focus on the processes of European integration, constitutional law, the changing role of the state, and the transformation of the concept of citizenship.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /nachrichten/id/29962 (459 words)

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		United States (04-368), overturns the company's obstruction of justice conviction because of improper jury instructions.
		March 5 - Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General's report (pdf) entitled "Review of the Transportation Security Administration's Role in the Use and Dissemination of Airline Passenger Data" finds that the "TSA did not ensure that privacy protections were in place for all of the passenger data transfers."
		The judgment of the Missouri Supreme Court setting aside the sentence of death imposed upon Christopher Simmons is affirmed."
	www.law.cornell.edu (704 words)

	Resource Guide - United States Constitutional Law
		The Constitution of the United States of America : Analysis and Interpretation : Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to -.
		The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States.
		United States Reports : Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court.
	camellia.shc.edu /byrne/RefGuide/Constlaw.html (649 words)

	Bora Laskin Law Library -Finding Legal Information on the Web -Constitutional Law
		Canada's basic law derives not only from a set of documents known as Constitution Acts, but also a set of unwritten laws and conventions.
		There are other documents that relate to Canada's development as a country, such as those predating Confederation, which do not hold the force of law, as each act was superseded by the other until the passing and proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1867.
		As the Constitution is the foundation of the United States, constitutional law deals with some of the fundamental relationships within American society.
	www.law-lib.utoronto.ca /resources/topic/const.htm (711 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Courting International Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Increasingly, it seems, the Court is relying on international law and opinion as the basis for domestic legal decisions.
		Moreover, it's perfectly legitimate for international opinion to inform the laws Congress and the state legislatures pass.
		What makes this latest trend worse is that, by citing international law as judicial precedent, the Court is hinting that our laws and Constitution may no longer be the supreme law of the land.
	www.techcentralstation.com /110403A.html (598 words)

	ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law
		We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
		Section 3: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed..."
		Section 4: "The validity of the public debt of the United States..."
	www.law.emory.edu /FEDERAL/usconst.html (613 words)

	"Fifth Amendment" Defined & Explained
		The Fifth Amendment 'can be asserted in any proceeding, civil or criminal, administrative or judicial, investigatory or adjudicatory; and it protects against any disclosures which the witness reasonably believes could be used in a criminal prosecution or could lead to other evidence that might be so used.' Kastigar v.
		The appropriate device for compelling answers to incriminating questions is a government grant of use immunity.
		There's lots of related stuff in other Library areas including The Constututional law Topic Area, so explore.
	www.lectlaw.com /def/f083.htm (211 words)

	ESR \| January 31, 2005 \| The relevance to our constitution of foreign law
		Thus, you, know, we cited it in Lawrence, the case on homosexual sodomy, we cited foreign law – not all foreign law, just the foreign law of countries that agreed with the disposition of the case.
		One is to look at history, as he does, and the second is the "evolving standards" approach, which sees issues in terms of what the judges think the standards of decency of American society are.
		And there are those who say that isn't the greater danger, the greater danger is the danger of the substitution of the unelected judge as a decision-maker for the elected parliamentarian congress – member of Congress.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0205/0205forlaw.htm (973 words)

	Find in a Library: United States constitutional law [1850-1875] / by Clifford C. Alloway.
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	United States Profile: Government
		The president and the vice-president is elected for a four year term by a popular elected electoral assembly, its members separately elected in each of the states.
		Cabinet, is selected by the president with the approval of the Senate and is dominated by the Republican Party.
		Supreme Court (its nine justices are appointed for life on condition of good behavior by the president with confirmation by the Senate); United States Courts of Appeal; United States District Courts; State and County Courts
	www.nationmaster.com /country/us/Government (903 words)

	Directory - Society: Law: Reference: North America: United States
		American Law Sources On-line (ALSO) · cached · Links to free on-line sources of American law that are available without charge, with some additional links to Mexican and Canadian resources.
		Legal Information Institute - State Law by Source · cached · Internet-accessible sources of constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations, for all fifty states, Washington DC, and the U.S. territories.
		Uniform Law Commissioners Drafts · cached · Drafts of uniform and model acts, from The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=134148 (213 words)

	The 'Lectric Law Library's Constitutional Law & Rights Topic Area
		It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
		It is legal and lawful to own a shotgun or a rifle.
		Maryland, 1819, 65k, Zip Constitution's 'The Supreme Law of the Land'
	www.lectlaw.com /tcon.htm (702 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90033189 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law, justice, and rights.
		Walker targets the "skeptical" moral nihilism of leading American judges and writers, on both the political left and right, charging that their premises undermine the authority of the Constitution, empty its moral words of any determinate meaning, and make nonsense of ostensibly normative theories.
		But he is even more worried about those who desire to conduct constitutional government by direct recourse to an authoritative moral truth.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/prin031/90033189.html (256 words)

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