Cato Supreme Court Review 2003-2004, Bände 2003-2004

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Cato Institute, 2004 - 517 Seiten
In this annual review, offers a timely analysis from a classical Madisonian perspective, of the most important cases from the Supreme Court's 2003-2004 term. Cato's is the first in-depth review to appear after the Court's term ends.

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INTRODUCTION
1
The Indivisibility of Economic Rights and Personal Liberty
9
Power and Liberty in Wartime
23
Executive and Judicial Overreaction in the Guantanamo Cases
49
The Supreme Court and the Rise of the Impressionist School of Constitutional Interpretation
69
Sabri v United States and the Constitution of Leviathan
119
How Illegitimate Power Negated NonExistent Immunity
161
The Cheney DecisionA Missed Chance to Straighten Out Some Muddled Issues
185
The Beat Goes On
299
Locke v Daveys Unnecessary Parsing
327
The Criminalization of Silence
357
An Assault on Di Re and the Fourth Amendment
395
The Confrontation Clause ReRooted and Transformed
439
The Supreme Court Takes a Pass on Commerce Clause Challenges to Environmental Laws
469
The Upcoming 20042005 Term
493
CONTRIBUTORS
509

The Alien Tort Statute and Federal Common Law in Sosa v AlvarezMachain
209
Rationing Speech to Prevent Undue Influence
245

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Seite 105 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Seite 294 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts...
Seite 75 - SO far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Seite 206 - Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide...
Seite 351 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical...
Seite 146 - Having satisfied themselves that the word "necessary" in the constitution, means "needful," "requisite," "essential," "conducive to," and that "a bank" is a convenient, a useful, and essential instrument, in the prosecution of the Government's "fiscal operations...
Seite 94 - When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.
Seite 101 - This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power ; where the constant aim is, to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other ; that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.
Seite 119 - The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

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