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  • United States Constitution topics

    Main index See: United States Constitution index United States Constitution Bibliography Abington Township v.Schempp abortion abstention doctrine accommodation Adams, John Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña Adderley et al. v.Florida Adkins v. Children’s Hospital af?rmative action age and the Constitution airline passenger searches Alabama v. Shelton Alden v. Maine Alito, Samuel Allen v. State Board of…

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Due Process

    US Main Decisions: 1. Record – Fernandez – Vargas v. Gonzales 2. Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales 3. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 4. United States v. Noriega 5. Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzales 6. Al-Marri v. Wright 7. El-Masri v. United States 8. […]

  • Due Process

    US Main Decisions: 1. Record – Fernandez – Vargas v. Gonzales 2. Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales 3. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 4. United States v. Noriega 5. Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzales 6. Al-Marri v. Wright 7. El-Masri v. United States 8. […]

  • Attorney

    Introduction to Attorney Attorney, in law, any person authorized by another to represent him or her. An agent who has been granted express authority to bind his or her principal is called an attorney in fact. Such authority is usually granted by a written instrument called a power of […]

  • Attorney

    Introduction to Attorney Attorney, in law, any person authorized by another to represent him or her. An agent who has been granted express authority to bind his or her principal is called an attorney in fact. Such authority is usually granted by a written instrument called a power of […]

  • Basic Patent

    Basic Patent in E.U. Patent SystemThe first member of a Derwent patent family. This may or may not be the first published patent (which is usually the first to be documented by services such as Derwent World Patents Index).

  • Marshall, Thurgood

    Marshall, Thurgood Former Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall,in re?ecting during the bicentennial in 1987 on theConstitution and its opening three words remarked: “I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever “?xed” at the Philadelphia Con-vention. Nor do I ?nd the wisdom, foresight, andsense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.…

  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu Montesquieu on this same subject as Fenelon , wrote ths: “To maintain the spirit of commerce, it is necessary that all the laws must favor it. These laws, by proportionately dividing up the fortunes as they are made in commerce, should provide every poor citizen with sufficiently easy circumstances to enable him to work…