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• Abortion
  ...lth of the woman. While the Court undeniably reinforced its support of the constitutional core of  ''Roe''  in 1992’s ''Planned Parenthood v. Casey'', it also ...ife” versus the contention by “pro-choice” groups that a woman has a constitutional right to reproductive freedom. The interests of the state and federal gover
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• Amendment Process
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• Topical List
  ===Constitutional Provisions=== category = Constitutional Provisions
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• Fourteenth Amendment
  === PROVISIONS OF THE AMENDMENT === ...the Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
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• Articles of Confederation
  ...ce after independence, the Articles established in law several of the main provisions of American [[federalism]] retained and strengthened in the [[U.S. Constitu ...learned, the defects of the Articles could be summed up in the compact’s provisions for remedying these problems—an amendment process that reinforced Congres
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• Bill of Rights
  ...owers between the states and the government of the United States under the provisions of the new Constitution. The several state constitutional conventions had proposed over 100 different amendments, and Madison had the
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• Bingham, John A.
  ...resident Andrew Johnson’s veto, while Bingham undertook the framing of a constitutional amendment that would legitimate the enactment and guarantee federal protect ...The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
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• Brennan, William J., Jr.
  ...he quickly picked up the mantle of incorporation—the effort to make the provisions of the [[Bill of Rights]] apply as limits on the power of the states, not j ...ederal system” and warning of “an ominous portent of disruption of our constitutional structure.” Rehnquist’s decision was later overruled by ''Garcia v. San
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• Bronson v. Kinzie (1843)
  ...ce [[Taney, Roger Brooke|Roger Brooke Taney]], invalidated the retroactive provisions of the two 1841 changes. According to Taney, the first of the new laws plac ...513; James W. Ely Jr., “3. The Taney Era,” in ''The Contract Clause: A Constitutional History'' (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016), 59–105; and Paul
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• Citizenship
  ...s . . . three fifths of all other persons” (Article I, Section 2). These provisions were understood to mean that a “citizen” was an active member of the fo ...the twentieth century, the rights of U.S. citizenship were strengthened by constitutional amendments (the Nineteenth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twentysixth),
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• Commerce among the States
  ...ment from application to them as employers of the Fair Labor Standards Act provisions on hours and wages. To be sure, the Court had always noted that there were ...ago: Quadrangle Books, 1964); Ralph A. Rossum and G. Alan Tarr, ''American Constitutional Law: The Structure of Government'', 9th Ed., New York, NY; Westview Press,
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• Concurrent Powers
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• Confederate States of America
  ...also convinced that the Union from which they recently seceded provided a constitutional blueprint from which to structure a reformed union geared toward the collec The CSA Constitution’s slave-related provisions acknowledged the slave issue to be of national importance and intentionally
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• Connecticut Compromise
  The Connecticut Compromise was a proposal in the [[Constitutional Convention of 1787]] to create a bicameral legislature composed of a Senate ...nment. The founders considered various versions of a federal system at the Constitutional Convention. The Virginia Plan proposed a federal system that divided and se
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• Constitutional Convention of 1787
  The Constitutional Convention was a signal event in the history of [[federalism]] for it was t ...ideration the situation of the United States, [and] to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them to render the constitution of the Federal Governmen
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• Contract Clause
  ...Often overlooked today, the Contract Clause occupied a pivotal place in constitutional law until the early twentieth century and served as a key protection for pr ...act Clause was little discussed at the [[Constitutional Convention of 1787|Constitutional Convention]], but the provision was clearly intended to curb state debtor r
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• Contract with America
  ...cedural reforms in the House and would hold floor votes on ten legislative provisions with public opinion poll–tested titles such as the “American Dream Rest ...e federal government found expression in contract provisions that sought a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, legislation to give the pres
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• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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• Dual Citizenship
  ...n]] (1787) established a dual national-state citizenship in several of its provisions. A national citizenship, for instance, was recognized in the requirements t ...ent is the product of numerous political and legal struggles. Although the constitutional rule stated a comity between national and state (and local) citizenship, th
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• Due Process
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