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The Constitution of Tonga, 132 years old in 2007 -- indeed one of the world's oldest extant constitutions -- has …
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constitution, or the act of 1905, it’s not what it appear, and mostly known in the french literature, this article is to reject all … questions of how the idea of laicism has been reversed into the interwar period thus to the 1958 constitution to be developed in …
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In this article, I argue that that substitution is crucial to our practice of constitutional law. Of course, if one wished, one could easily extend the domain of substitution beyond these boundaries. Substitute arguments are an important aspect of law more generally and, indeed, of life. I have...
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inference from the structure and relationships created by the Constitution." The article takes a structural approach to the …
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A “self-coup”—or “autogolpe”—is the sudden seizure of power by a President or other chief executive in contravention of a nation’s laws. Although the term “self-coup” is relatively new, the phenomenon was familiar to the Framers, who made references at the Constitutional...
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The EU ‘economic constitution’ systematically biases EU policy making in a neo-liberal direction. Historically speaking … EU economic constitution are significant, we should avoid the naturalization of the EU project. Instead of looking only … European progressives, while in power, failed to leave their lasting and distinct imprint on the EU economic constitution …
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Coming in the midst of the Rehnquist Court's federalism revolution, Printz v. United States held that federal commandeering of state executive officers is “fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.” The Printz majority's discussion of historical evidence,...
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Patent protection for genetic enhancements would tend to spur genetic innovation, but would tend to limit access to those genetic enhancements through discriminatory mechanisms such as price and favoritism. The patent system would likely ensure high rates of genetic enhancement innovation,...
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Many have argued that thought should constitute per se unpatentable subject matter, and some have even suggested that any patent claim that includes a mental step should lie outside patentability. Many courts have long disagreed with such a draconian rule, and have instead upheld myriad patent...
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