The general rules regarding school searches are derived from federal constitutional law. (kappanonline.org)
But the radical insularity once embraced by the concept of «states» rights» is now seen in another form: the right of a state to abolish even those minimum standards in favor of human life that federal constitutional law still recognizes as necessary to the common good. (firstthings.com)
When Justice Hugo Black wrote Jefferson's metaphor of a «wall of separation between church and state» into federal constitutional law, the writing was on the wall: a full - scale secularization of our national politics, at the command of the courts, was only a matter of time. (firstthings.com)