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Race as Evidence: The Historical Racial Nexus and Equal Protection
This Essay accepts strict scrutiny as the constitutional terrain within which race-conscious policy must operate and builds a refined framework for equal protection analysis:…
Lisa Owens -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 3
“Original History” and the Free Exercise Case for Religious Charter Schools
Only rarely is it publicly known which Supreme Court Justice holds the decisive vote on a blockbuster issue because the other eight have already…
Aaron Tang & Ethan Hutt -
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The Wrong Level of Generality: Misapplying Bruen to Young-Adult Firearm Right
Three relatively recent appellate opinions—McCoy v. ATF, National Rifle Ass’n v. Bondi, and Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Polis—upheld modern restrictions on 18-to-20-year-old adults’…
George A. Mocsary -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 2
Constitutional Private Law
Constitutional private law is like ordinary private law. It imposes relational obligations on government officials, like duties to use only reasonable force against a…
E. Garrett West -
ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 6
Minor v. Happersett, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, And the Supreme Court’s Refusal to Reconstruct America
One hundred and fifty years ago, in the wake of the ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments, the United States Supreme Court decided Minor v.…
Henry L. Chambers, Jr. -
ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 6
A “New” New Departure
In the wake of enactment of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, women’s rights activists embarked on an exercise in popular constitutionalism known as “the…
Paula A. Monopoli -
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Birthright Citizenship of Child Born to Enemy Alien Visitors
This is the story of Mogridge v. United States, in which the United States asserted, and a multinational commission held, that a child born…
John Vlahoplus & Michael L. Rosin -
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Federal Enclaves: Critical Islands of Federal Jurisdiction Protecting the National Interest
The Framers of the new Constitution insisted upon a neutral situs for the federal government and the land it owns and operates that would…
Walter H. Boone, Jennifer J. Skipper, Demarcus McGee, Kye C. Handy & Balch & Bingham LLP -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 5
The Debt Limit
Every couple of years, it seems, the debt limit shows up to wreak havoc in American law and public finance. By capping the face…
Conor Clarke -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 3
“Religion,” Before Darwin
The First Amendment singles out “religion” for special treatment, but the boundaries of that concept have always been difficult to describe. Nevertheless, there is…
James Toomey -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 1
The Territories Under Text, History, and Tradition
In two of its major decisions in the 2021–2022 Term, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s…
Andrew Willinger -
ArticleVol. 100 · Iss. 3
The Disembodied First Amendment
Abstract First Amendment doctrine is becoming disembodied—increasingly detached from human speakers and listeners. Corporations claim that their speech rights limit government regulation of everything…
Nathan Cortez & William Sage