due process

How the New York Bill of Rights Helped Lead to the U.S. Bill of Rights 0
- CONSTITUTION
- October 3, 2024
John Lansing, Jr. used the New York Bill of Rights as one basis for the proposed constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison.
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Understanding the Constitution: Why it doesn’t protect the unborn 0
- CONSTITUTION
- August 10, 2022
As Justice Samuel Alito pointed out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (pdf)—and as the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia said repeatedly—the Fifth and 14th Amendment Due Process Clauses really have nothing to do with abortion.
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Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I 0
- CONSTITUTION
- November 15, 2021
This two-part essay is a primer on the longest amendment ever adopted—the 14th.
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Judicial oligarchy is the wrong way to decide abortion policy 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 3, 2019
On abortion policy America has ceased to be a democracy and has become a judicial oligarchy.
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What does “Due Process of Law” mean? Hint: SCOTUS had it wrong: It’s irrelevant to same-sex marriage 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court, Uncategorized
- October 9, 2015
Note: An earlier version of this article appeared in The American Thinker. The Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution each has a Due Process Clause. The Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause prohibited the federal government from depriving any person of “life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” The Fourteenth Amendment extended that
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Federalism (“States’ Rights”) Get Short Shrift in Colorado Judicial Exhibit 0
- CONSTITUTION, Uncategorized
- May 19, 2013
I recently visited the new Ralph Carr Colorado Judicial Center—the huge and incredibly expensive building complex that now houses the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. But even after spending $258 million, they couldn’t get one sign right. An exhibit there has the worthy purpose of educating the public about the rule of law.
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