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This paper examines the foundations of the Italian Constitutional Court's authority by comparing it with that of the German Federal Constitutional Court. In comparison to the German Court, la Corte had to build its authority on a particularly weak legal basis. However, it succeeded in developing...
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constitutional provisions, such as property rights, federalism, limitations to police powers, equality and, more specifically, the … Voting Rights Act. The United States Constitution is famously silent about local governments. In light of this omission and … focuses on annexation as proxy for local powers, and it compares the U.S. federalism scheme with the Brazilian unprecedented …
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argument, I will discuss decisions of different jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, Germany and South Africa …
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argument, I will discuss decisions of different jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, Germany and South Africa …. -- proportionality ; comparative law ; Germany ; Uncertainty ; margin of appreciation ; constitutional law ; Canada ; South Africa …
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India and Germany" on 14 and 15 Oct. 1994 and National Symposium on "Re-orienting Federalism" on 3 and 4 December 1996 in …
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Despite the relevance of comparative law in constitutional adjudication has repeatedly been at the center of heated debates, in recent years, an increasingly transnational constitutional dialogue between justices has developed in many countries. Some members of a large number of constitutional...
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Can Supreme Court rulings change Americans' policy views? Prior experimental and observational studies come to conflicting conclusions because of methodological limitations. We argue that existing studies overlook the media's critical role in communicating Court decisions and theorize that major...
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This report provides information about the Supreme Court of the United States, how it is organized and functions, the mechanisms by which cases reach the Court and how it treats treaties that have not been ratified by the United States government.
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The debate over campaign finance regulation is usually framed as a conflict between reducing corruption in the electoral process, on the one hand, and protecting freedom of speech, on the other. There is far more at stake, however, in the controversy over campaign finance regulation. By engaging...
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