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1 online resource (ix, 507 pages) |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. General Theory -- Chief (1974) -- Excerpt from Another Such Victory: Constitutional Theory and Practice in a World Where Courts Are No Different from Legislatures (1991) -- Democracy and Judicial Review (1982) -- On Protecting Fundamental Interests and Powerless Minorities under the United States and Canadian Constitutions (1986) -- Rule of Clear Mistake: "A Great and Stately Jurisdiction"? (1993) -- 2. Federalism -- Remarks at American-German Bicentennial Symposium on Constitutional Law (1976) -- Excerpt from The Limits of Logic: Syntactic Ambiguity in Article I of the U.S. Constitution (1963) -- Excerpt from The Irrepressible Myth of Erie (1974) -- Excerpt from Legislative and Administrative Motivation in Constitutional Law (1970) -- Irrepressible Myth of Erie (1974) -- Choice of Law and the State's Interest in Protecting Its Own (1981) -- Another Spin on Allegheny Pittsburgh (1990) -- 3. Separation of Powers -- United States v. Lovett: Litigating the Separation of Powers (1975) -- Bounds of Legislative Specification: A Suggested Approach to the Bill of Attainder Clause (1962) -- Excerpt from Legislative and Administrative Motivation in Constitutional Law (1970) -- Memorandum to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on the Legality of Calling President Nixon before a Grand Jury (1973) -- Letter to The New York (1973) -- Letter to The New York Times (1994) -- Whose War Is It, Anyway? The Gulf and the War Powers Act (1988) -- Perspective on the Persian Gulf: "War by Default" Isn't the Law (1990) -- Clinton, Congress, and War (1993) -- Now Bosnia (1994) -- 4. Freedom of Expression -- Trial by Newspaper and Its Cures (1967) -- Flag Desecration: A Case Study in the Roles of Categorization and Balancing in First Amendment Analysis (1975) -- 5. Religion Freedom -- Memorandum to Chief Justice Warren Concerning United States v. Seeger (1965) -- Excerpt from Legislative and Administrative Motivation in Constitutional Law (1970) -- Letter to The New York Times (1984) -- 6. Criminal Procedure -- Excerpts from Memoranda to Abe Fortas Concerning Gideon v. Wainwright (1962) -- Remarks at American University Conference Marking the Thirtieth Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright (1993) -- Letter to Anthony Lewis (1990) -- Harris v. New York: Some Anxious Observations on the Candor and Logic of the Emerging Nixon Majority (1971) / John Hart Ely / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Proposed "Good Faith" Exception to the Exclusionary Rule (1983) -- Sure Money Talks, but That's Precisely the Reason We Need the Reasonable Doubt Standard (1995) -- Letter to Stanford Campus Report (1991) -- Memorandum to Other Members of Yale University Police Advisory Board (1971) -- What Counts as Liberal? Some Observations on French Criminal Procedure and the "Projet Peyrefitte" (1980) -- 7. Racial Discrimination -- Excerpts from Legislative and Administrative Motivation in Constitutional Law (1970) -- School Desegregation: A Sense of Deja Vu (1977) -- Excerpt from Professor Dworkin's External/Personal Preference Distinction (1983) -- Constitutionality of Reverse Racial Discrimination (1974) -- Excerpt from Legislative and Administrative Motivation in Constitutional Law (1970) -- 8. "Substantive Due Process" -- Memorandum to Chief Justice Warren Concerning Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) -- Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Excerpts from Testimony on S.J. Res. 119 and 130 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments (1974) -- Let There Be Life (1981) / John Hart Ely / Laurence H. Tribe -- Abortion for the Rich (1977) -- Letter to Justices Kennedy, O'Connor and Souter Concerning Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) -- Democracy and the Right to Be Different (1981) -- Excerpt from Professor Dworkin's External/Personal Preference Distinction (1983) -- 9. Candor -- Letter to Attorney General Levi (1975) -- About the Evidence (1975) -- Draft Letter to "the Media" Concerning the Warren Commission (1992) -- On Living Lies for Professional Reasons (1992) -- Letter to The New York Times (1988) -- Letter to The New York Times (1989) -- Another Such Victory: Constitutional Theory and Practice in a World Where Courts Are No Different from Legislatutes (1991) -- Author's Comment on Legislative and Administrative Motivation in Constitutional Law and The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade (1991) -- Excerpt from On Constitutional Nihilism (1980) |
| Summary |
John Hart Ely is a leading contemporary writer on political theory from the standpoint of American constitutional law. This collection covers a full range of topics of constitutional interpretation: federalism, separation of powers, freedom of expression, religious freedom, criminal procedure, racial discrimination, ""substantive due process,"" and honesty in government. Organized under these heads and linked by the author's witty explanatory and autobiographical remarks, the essays and other documents--many previously unpublished in any forum--range chronologically over the past three deca |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-496) and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Constitutional law -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Constitutional law
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400811481 |
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9781400811489 |
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1282753088 |
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9781282753082 |
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9781400822058 |
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140082205X |
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