with constitutional provisions for gender equality remaining absent. The United States remains the only UN member state that has not ratified theConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Womenand theConvention on the Rights of the Child. In April 2023, the U.S. Senate...
It’s a Constitutional carry state with no firearm registration requirements or additional background checks. While similar to all other states, you can’t carry a firearm everywhere, even 18 years olds can legally carry a firearm in South Dakota. If you’d like to get an enhanced carry ...
states than as one unified nation. The states had near complete autonomy. The federal government, such as it existed, was merely a body to enact foreign policy. Its powers were limited to calling for war, negotiating treaties, appointing diplomats, and conducting relations with the Native ...
As a result, more regressive laws are passed that are not at all popular, let alone constitutional. But that doesn’t matter at this point. It’s too late. They have the power and they’re never letting it go again. Now, what I just described is only one possible scenario. I ...
In 2004, the Patriot Party gave Limited Candidate Endorsement for President Michael Peroutka of the Constitutional Party, for President. Note:The Oregon Patriot Party had abstained from that endorsement. In 2008, RonPaul was endorsed by a number of states through the primaries; Upon endorsementof ...
And while 20 Appellate Case: 23-1625 Page: 26 Date Filed: 07/07/2023 Entry ID: 5293488 City of New York specifically concerned federal common law, all the same concerns apply with even greater force to state common law. The Constitution vests in Congress the power to "regulate Commerce ...
Unsure about their legislative prospects, abortion rights advocates are gathering signatures for a November ballot initiative that would create a state constitutional right to abortion, allowing its regulation only "after fetal viability." "It’s the best shot that we have at...
However, critics of such attempts to generate new, nonexclusionary forms of solidarity have expressed doubts about the extent to which patriotic sentiments can be reconciled with a commitment to universal principles. While critics of constitutional patriotism have questioned the feasibility of Habermas’s...
no amount of ink spilled in a brief can fix that regime's fatal constitutional defects. The government first tries to avoid the merits with a series of procedural objections. It recycles its contention that Plaintiffs' claims require the individual participation of members, but that contention had...
That's a clear reference to the court's shift in recent years toward originalism — the theory that constitutional language should be interpreted according to how it was understood when it was drafted. This case will largely be fought on history-centered turf: the “original understanding” of...