Sentences with phrase «own constitutional laws»

Indeed, the courts are more likely to focus on whether there is «an adequate factual basis for singling out these specific countries as distinct sources of risk,» Richard Pildes, a professor of Constitutional Law at New York University, told Business Insider in an email.

«There are going to be tough questions on both sides, questions the Supreme Court has not directly answered before in cases, that this court may not hesitate to stay clear of,» says Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at University of California, Los Angeles.

Litigation over the order will likely continue until the government provides «an adequate factual basis for singling out these specific countries as distinct sources of risk,» Richard Pildes, a professor of Constitutional Law at New York University, told Business Insider in an email.

Experts in constitutional law say Trump could order Mueller's dismissal.

But a New Brunswick trial judge ruled that the charge violated constitutional law, overturning a ban on bringing alcohol across provincial boundaries.

According to Stephen Scott, a constitutional law professor at McGill University, the original point of the law was to ensure courts in colonial America had the same traditional powers as those in England.

Adam Winkler, a specialist in American constitutional law and a professor at UCLA school of law, says standing «is of the utmost importance to the Supreme Court.»

But in terms of constitutional law, then-B.C.

Only by knowing this, can present - day Canadians know the meaning of our constitutional law.

Now, some constitutional law purists (not to mention a number of criminal law professors) maintain that the criminal law power should not be used for matters of regulation as opposed to outright prohibitions based on grounds of morality.

As a matter of constitutional law, the federal government has ample authority in this area.

«We disagree with this decision, which is wrong as a matter of constitutional law,» he said last week, according to CNN.

These doctrines are standard parts of Canadian constitutional law and there is no reason to think that they are not equally applicable to a law that relies for its validity on s 92A (2).

As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is.

Moreover, the Supreme Court's declaration of constitutional law is binding upon the entire polity.

A theory of constitutional law that may be out of fashion in today's legal academy, but that fits comfortably within the modern conservative and the traditional liberal views of the courts, begins with certain basic premises: the existence of law and the possibility of meaningful rules of law.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado.

Where such lines should be drawn is a matter of both constitutional law and democratic deliberation.

from John Eastman, a constitutional law professor at Chapman University, is chairman of the National Organization for Marriage:

She needs to revisit Constitutional Law, for heaven's sake.

Constitutional laws can do that too.

In Lawrence, the invalidation of the Texas law is defensible under the traditional sources of constitutional law.

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

The Vatican II document Dignitatis humanae states: «This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognised in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right.

Darren Patrick Guerra is associate professor of political science at Biola University, specializing in constitutional law and American politics.

Thomas Berg is James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), where he teaches constitutional law and supervises the school's Religious Liberty Appellate Clinic.

A Catholic Christian and theologian will know that there is not only a history of the consciousness of faith, but also a history of dogma, hence that he possesses what is permanent in his faith and his Church only in history and not outside it, and he will therefore have no reason to be afraid of a development of the Church's constitutional law.

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For many law students, unsurprisingly, this creed doesn't survive three weeks of an actual course on constitutional law.

The past half - century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S. Supreme Court a virtual monopoly in American constitutional law.

Father Weber, S.J., teaches political science and constitutional law at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

And so, precisely because the rules of constitutional law create some faint possibility of gaining special consideration, the question the religion must ask itself becomes (to take Needham as our example) not What form of counseling does God require?

The metaphorical wall of separation of church and state (which is only a metaphor, although we sometimes pretend is a part of our constitutional law) seeks to capture this idea: there is the sphere of religion and the sphere of the state, and a mighty wall protecting each from the other.

Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the leading exponent of this criticism, emphasizes the purely procedural quality of the argument by declaring abortion, for example, to be a matter entirely outside the purview of constitutional law and, therefore, beyond the jurisdiction of courts.

Still, Urofsky's biography is a valuable guide to the life and thought of a man who, for better and worse, profoundly shaped modern constitutional law.

Paul, I think, actually agrees with Santorum on what's left to the states, but he's completely clueless on constitutional law.

One of the most serious issues in constitutional discourse was the virtue of the people, since constitutional law would be effective only if citizens respected it.

Philadelphia minister David Jones finessed the apostles» admonition to submit to authority into commands to obey «the just, the good, the wholesome and constitutional laws of the land,» not tyrants.

Thomas and Senator Joseph Biden grappled repeatedly with the concept of natural law and its relation to constitutional law.

A professor of constitutional law and a doctor write about dying and death from their respective points of view.

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

Students in constitutional law courses increasingly echo the Critical Legal Studies slogan from the last decade: It's all «just politics.»

We might start by remembering that the familiar claim that constitutional law is the embodiment of reason is not a new one.

Editor's note: Douglas Laycock, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Virginia, represented Hosanna - Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School in the case the Supreme Court decided Wednesday.

Howard C. Anawalt, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Santa Clara, studied the MacBride Report and concluded that the proposals of the Commission were consistent with the U.S. Constitution:

Our legal system, and especially our constitutional law, tends to overlook informal communities of memory and mutual aid even though our society counts heavily on them to perform indispensable social functions.

It may be, however, that one reason that «radical and egalitarian individualism» often appears to be «winning out» is that it so thoroughly permeates that part of American law, constitutional law, where we tell the story about what kind of people we think we are.

In our own time, by promoting individual rights at the expense of nearly every other social value in family law, labor law, and constitutional law, we have deprived families, churches, and other forms of fellowship of some of their mutually sustaining influences.

Below, Adrian Vermeule, the Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, answers a few questions about his own recent conversion experience.