Appropriate Role of Foreign Judgments in the Interpretation of American Law: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 568, March 25, 2004, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 60 páginas |
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... discussion of these foreign views ( ignoring , of course , the many countries that have retained criminal prohibitions on sodomy ) is meaningless dicta , dangerous dicta , however , since this Court should not impose foreign moods ...
... discussion of these foreign views ( ignoring , of course , the many countries that have retained criminal prohibitions on sodomy ) is meaningless dicta , dangerous dicta , however , since this Court should not impose foreign moods ...
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... discussion of this issue and any other that we will work to facilitate that relationship and not fur- ther degrade it . Several of us have been working on establishing a new caucus within the Congress that's designed to improve com ...
... discussion of this issue and any other that we will work to facilitate that relationship and not fur- ther degrade it . Several of us have been working on establishing a new caucus within the Congress that's designed to improve com ...
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... discussion about this issue . I would also hope that we recognize the importance of an inde- pendent judiciary , but we ought to understand independence of the judiciary in its proper constitutional context . The judiciary should never ...
... discussion about this issue . I would also hope that we recognize the importance of an inde- pendent judiciary , but we ought to understand independence of the judiciary in its proper constitutional context . The judiciary should never ...
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... ( discussing German , French and British approaches to emer- gency powers ) . And in Miranda v . Arizona , 384 U.S. 436 , 489-90 ( 1966 ) the Court suggested that our Fifth Amendment should be interpreted to provide at least as much ...
... ( discussing German , French and British approaches to emer- gency powers ) . And in Miranda v . Arizona , 384 U.S. 436 , 489-90 ( 1966 ) the Court suggested that our Fifth Amendment should be interpreted to provide at least as much ...
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... ( discussing European Court of Human Rights cases invalidating laws prohibiting adult homosexual conduct ) . 7 See McIntyre v . Ohio Elections Comm'n , 514 U.S. 334 , 381-82 ( 1995 ) ( Scalia , J. , dissenting ) ( referring to Australia ...
... ( discussing European Court of Human Rights cases invalidating laws prohibiting adult homosexual conduct ) . 7 See McIntyre v . Ohio Elections Comm'n , 514 U.S. 334 , 381-82 ( 1995 ) ( Scalia , J. , dissenting ) ( referring to Australia ...
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Página 55 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 42 - The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.
Página 13 - It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains...
Página 2 - ... there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Página 13 - The decisions of the courts of every country, so far as they are founded upon a law common to every country, will be received, not as authority, but with respect. The decisions of the courts of every country show how the law of nations, in the given case, is understood in that country, and will be considered in adopting the rule which is to prevail in this.
Página 12 - An attention to the judgment of other nations is important to every Government, for two reasons : the one is, that independently of the merits of any particular plan or measure, it is desirable, on various accounts, that it should appear to other nations as the offspring of a wise and honorable policy...
Página 26 - The right the petitioners seek in this case has been accepted as an integral part of human freedom in many other countries. There has been no showing that in this country the governmental interest in circumscribing personal choice is somehow more legitimate or urgent.
Página 55 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Página 43 - State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers' validation of laws based on moral choices. Every single one of these laws is called into question by today's decision; the Court makes no effort to cabin the scope of its decision to exclude them from its holding.