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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... precedents in which the U.S. Supreme Court in several recent cases has cited decisions by foreign courts and treaties not ratified by this country to support their interpreta- tions of the United States Constitution . As one commentator ...
... precedents in which the U.S. Supreme Court in several recent cases has cited decisions by foreign courts and treaties not ratified by this country to support their interpreta- tions of the United States Constitution . As one commentator ...
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... precedents in which the U.S. Supreme Court , in several recent cases , has cited decisions by foreign courts and treaties not ratified by this country to support their interpretations of the United States Constitution . As one ...
... precedents in which the U.S. Supreme Court , in several recent cases , has cited decisions by foreign courts and treaties not ratified by this country to support their interpretations of the United States Constitution . As one ...
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... legal opinion will encourage judicial activism . One of the main reasons why judges cite precedents is to demonstrate that their decisions are not simply based on their own personal preferences but follow 12 Prepared Statement.
... legal opinion will encourage judicial activism . One of the main reasons why judges cite precedents is to demonstrate that their decisions are not simply based on their own personal preferences but follow 12 Prepared Statement.
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... precedents to choose from - or to hide behind . The point is well illustrated by the two recent cases in which the Supreme Court's majority did invoke foreign standards - Atkins v . Virginia and Lawrence v . Texas . In both of these ...
... precedents to choose from - or to hide behind . The point is well illustrated by the two recent cases in which the Supreme Court's majority did invoke foreign standards - Atkins v . Virginia and Lawrence v . Texas . In both of these ...
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... precedents or legal institutions in a non - binding way can be a positive good in helping to assure us that our own constitutional decisions are thoughtfully considered and well informed . Lawrence's use of the European decisions was ...
... precedents or legal institutions in a non - binding way can be a positive good in helping to assure us that our own constitutional decisions are thoughtfully considered and well informed . Lawrence's use of the European decisions was ...
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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.