Limiting Federal Court Jurisdiction to Protect Marriage for the States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2004, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 153 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 39
Página 9
... interpretation or valid- ity of the Defense of Marriage Act or any State law that limits the definition or recognition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman . It is urgent that this law be passed now . This is Con- gress ...
... interpretation or valid- ity of the Defense of Marriage Act or any State law that limits the definition or recognition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman . It is urgent that this law be passed now . This is Con- gress ...
Página 11
... interpretation or validity of the Defense of Marriage Act or any state law that limits the definition or recognition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman . It is urgent that this legislation be passed now . This is ...
... interpretation or validity of the Defense of Marriage Act or any state law that limits the definition or recognition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman . It is urgent that this legislation be passed now . This is ...
Página 15
... interpretation and enforcement of federal law , that , too , violates separation of powers . If Congress withdraws or restricts federal jurisdiction for a particular class of American citizens or based on the exercise of fundamental ...
... interpretation and enforcement of federal law , that , too , violates separation of powers . If Congress withdraws or restricts federal jurisdiction for a particular class of American citizens or based on the exercise of fundamental ...
Página 16
... interpreted to vest individual rights , it is unconstitutional for Con- gress to preclude the courts from ... interpretation of the Constitution or federal law ; 1 and Congress may not under- mine this function under the guise ...
... interpreted to vest individual rights , it is unconstitutional for Con- gress to preclude the courts from ... interpretation of the Constitution or federal law ; 1 and Congress may not under- mine this function under the guise ...
Página 17
... some Article III court . Akhil Amar , A Neo - Federalist View of Article III : Separating the Two Tiers of Federal Jurisdiction , 65 Boston U. L. Rev. 205 ( 1985 ) . fifty states to become courts of last resort for interpreting 17.
... some Article III court . Akhil Amar , A Neo - Federalist View of Article III : Separating the Two Tiers of Federal Jurisdiction , 65 Boston U. L. Rev. 205 ( 1985 ) . fifty states to become courts of last resort for interpreting 17.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
abolish accompanying text American appellate jurisdiction Article III courts authority bill BOSTON COLLEGE BOSTON COLLEGE LAW CHABOT Chairman circuit courts COLLEGE LAW REVIEW Committee CONG CONGRE CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CONGRESS'S UNDERSTANDING congressional power Court's appellate jurisdiction created Dannemeyer decision diversity jurisdiction DOMA due process Ellsworth enacted Ex parte McCardle exercise federal court jurisdiction federal judiciary federal jurisdiction federal law Federalist GERHARDT gress hearing HOSTETTLER III-JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT inferior courts inferior federal courts infra Appendix issue judicial power Judiciary Act jurisdic legislative LIBRARY OF CONGRESS limit the jurisdiction lower courts lower federal courts MACLAY'S DIARY Madison Marriage Protection Act McCardle NADLER Oliver Ellsworth original jurisdiction Paterson Paterson's Notes Paterson's Speech Pledge of Allegiance power of Congress prayer proposed question ratification regulate restrict same-sex marriages SCHLAFLY separation of powers statute Steve Chabot Supreme Court Supreme Court's appellate tion U.S. Constitution United vested violates
Pasajes populares
Página 1 - 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 25 - I have never shrunk from its expression... that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the Constitution of the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body... for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow. . .working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
Página 60 - I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Página 3 - Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the courts of justice; whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Página 14 - Hart, The Power of Congress to Limit the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts: An Exercise in Dialectic, 66 HARV.
Página 9 - The notion has frequently been entertained that the Federal courts derive their judicial power immediately from the Constitution ; but the political truth is that the disposal of the judicial power, except in a few specified instances, belongs to Congress.
Página 10 - We are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of the legislature. We can only examine into its power under the Constitution ; and the power to make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of this court is given by express words.
Página 33 - I have never shrunk from its expression . . . that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
Página 26 - There can be no question of the power of Congress thus to define and limit the jurisdiction of the inferior courts of the United States.
Página 41 - States,* particularly, the whole matter was carefully examined, and the court held, that while "the appellate powers of this court are not given by the judicial act, but are given by the Constitution," they are, nevertheless, "limited and regulated by that act, and by such other acts as have been passed on the subject.