Even in cities where cross-dressing was not explicitly prohibited, municipal police departments had broad discretion to use laws prohibiting other street crimes such asvagrancy, disorderly conduct and loitering to harass gender-nonconforming people. For example, in 1916, a New York magistrate sentenced...
Category Archives: Judiciary and human rights Monitor 89: The urgency of protecting democracy and the rule of law Posted on March 25, 2025 by The Constitution Unit Today the Unit published Monitor 89, providing an analysis of constitutional events over the last four months. This post by ...
In Montana, abortion is legal until fetal viability. Abortion rights supporters proposed a constitutional amendment to protect abortion access that the Republican Montana attorney general attempted to block. But in August, the secretary of state certified the constitutional initiative, allowing it to go...
We exercised effective overall jurisdiction over the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao in accordance with China’s Constitution and the basic laws of the two regions, formulated and put into effect the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security ...
implementation;human rights;fair trial;union;union rights;children’s rights;treaties;regime type;accountability;state capacity 1. Introduction Faithful implementation of a domestic law or set of laws protecting internationally recognized human rights requires that legal promises to protect a right be consi...
In the last two decades in Brazil, indigenous peoples have been struggling for their rights through the practice of what they call “retomada de terra
We will make further headway in making laws in a well-conceived and democratic way and in accordance with the law; we will take coordinated steps to enact, revise, abolish, interpret, and codify laws; and we will see that legislative work is more sy...
What is does have is an intriguing question of constitutional law, which is why it gets to be our Case of the Week.Texas cathouse jurisprudence now considers: Does memory loss render a witness absent for purposes of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States ...
Protecting constitutional principles: what are they and why do they matter? Posted onOctober 11, 2022byConstitution Unit Recent debates about the health of the UK political system have raised questions about the core principles underlying constitutional democracy.Meg Russell, Alan RenwickandLisa Jamesset...
The rule of law is a foundational principle of any constitutional democracy, and should not be set aside during a national emergency: sustained compliance can actively assist an effective pandemic response by promoting transparency, equality, and accountability, among other principles. Our main rule ...