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- 1From:ABA Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 4)Aug. 2, 1790 When the U.S. Constitution was approved in 1787, one of its first requirements was a government head count of the nation's population--to occur within three years. The task was important enough to be...
- 2From:Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the period immediately preceding the Constitution's adoption, New Yorkers engaged in a spirited debate over whether a proposed delegation from the State to the federal government authorizing collection of an impost...
- 3From:Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWas the Second Amendment right of the people to bear arms adopted to protect liberty or to perpetrate slavery? The latter was the thesis first published by Professor Carl Bogus in a 1998 law review article "The Hidden...
- 4From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 170, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFrom the first days of the United States, the story of sovereignty has not been one of a simple division between the federal government and the states of the Union. Then, as today, American Indian tribes persisted as...
- 5From:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 120, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAt the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates appointed the Committee of Style and Arrangement to bring together the textual provisions that the Convention had previously agreed to and to prepare a final...
- 6From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 130, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPart 2 of 2 Note Wolcott's acknowledgment that assistant assessors were prone to have "variant" opinions on valuation, and also that he refrained from suggesting how each board should formulate its "standards" or what...
- 7From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 130, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPart 1 of 2 The Supreme Court is poised to toughen the nondelegation doctrine to strike down acts of Congress that give broad discretion to administrators, signaling a potential revolution in the separation of powers....
- 8From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe common conception of a constitutionally sufficient warrant is one reflecting a judicial determination of probable cause, the idea being that the warrant process serves to check law enforcement. But neither the...
- 9From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 1)Originalists have written off the Federal Reserve's independent monetary policy decisions as an unconstitutional novelty. This Article demonstrates that the independent structure of the Federal Reserve dates back to a...
- 10From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 1)The Supreme Court has recently expressed a renewed interest in the question of when the Free Exercise Clause requires exemptions from generally applicable laws. While scholars have vigorously debated what the historical...
- 11From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 130, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJudges and statesmen of the early Republic had heated exchanges over the importance of hewing to the text in constitutional interpretation, and they advanced dueling interpretive prescriptions. That is why contemporary...
- 12From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn 22 October 1782, a Westchester County sheriff entered the Crompond, New York, headquarters of General Rochambeau, the leader of the Expedition Particuliere, the French Expeditionary Force to North America. The...
- 13From:Building & Landscapes (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDendrochronology has allowed us to accurately date a large number of early houses in the Georgia backcountry for the first time, giving us a more plausible portrait of the region's early architecture and the lifestyle...
- 14From:Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWomen had the right to vote in New Jersey from 1776 - 1807. Traditionally, historians have treated women s suffrage in New Jersey as an insignificant historical anomaly. More recent works, however, show that women's...
- 15From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 133, Issue 2)America's first system for punishing criminals with solitary confinement began at the Walnut Street Jail, an institution that stood right behind Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Historical and archival evidence from...
- 16From:Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBefore the enactment of separate property and contract rights for married women, generations of married women in seaport cities and towns conducted business as merchants, traders and shopkeepers. The first part of this...
- 17From:Georgetown Law Journal (Vol. 107, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION It is no stretch to say that "jury" and "fact finder" have become nearly synonymous terms in the language of modern American law.* * (1) Yet this has the unfortunate side effect of obscuring an essential...
- 18From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 128, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis Article offers an alternate account of federalism's late eighteenth-century origins. In place of scholarly and doctrinal accounts that portray federalism as a repudiation of models of unitary sovereignty, it...
- 19From:Humanitas (Vol. 32, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedRussell Kirk has three interlocking intentions in writing The Roots of American Order. (1) First, he would draw our attention to the appearance of modern tyranny, particularly as established by the French and Russian...
- 20From:Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMany commentators have questioned whether the interpretation of the term "ex post facto law" in Calder v. Bull, which restricted that term to retroactive criminal laws, is historically accurate. Most prominently, over...