Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Constitutional

The relationship between the states and the national government is among the most contested issues in the United States. And questions about where power should reside, how decisions should be made, and how responsibility should be allocated have been central to the American experiment in federalism. In "Polyphonic Federalism," Robert A. Schapiro defends the advantages of multiple perspectives in government, arguing that the resulting polyphony creates a system that is more efficient, democratic, and protective of liberties.
This groundbreaking volume contends that contemporary views of...

The Ninth Amendment holds that every right not explicitly granted to the federal government by the Constitution belongs to the states or to the individual. Further, those rights held by the government should not be construed to deny or disparage other rights held by the people. As in other areas of contention between federal power and states' rights, the Ninth Amendment has become subject to activist Supreme Court interpretation whereby the traditional model of federalism, in which states had meaningful public policy prerogatives, has given way to a model in which states become mere...

Wald ist ein eigentumliches Eigentum: als ein Symbol des unendlichen Raumes" sowie als Projektionsflache emotionaler Bedurfnisse der Menschen bestimmt es gerade in Deutschland untergrundig die politischen Debatten um die je notwendige rechtliche Ausgestaltung des Waldeigentums in Ansehung seiner vielfaltigen Funktionen. Zudem pragen die kulturellen und historischen, wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen sowie okologischen und politischen Implikationen ebenso wie die Interessen der Waldbesitzer das Spannungsfeld von privaten Eigentumsbefugnissen und legitimen Allgemeinwohlbedurfnissen in...

Band I behandelt die historische Entwicklung, die philosophischen und rechtlichen Grundlagen, die politische Dimension und die okonomische Grammatik des Foderalismus. Er stellt differenziert Inhalte und Strukturen der bundesstaatlichen Ordnung in Deutschland dar. Zudem zeigt er die Bedeutung von Rechtskultur, Verfassung und Kompetenzverteilung fur den Foderalismus auf.

This book gathers, synthesizes and analyzes case law in a variety of substantive contexts, including public employment, prison administration, and government benefits. It places current case law into historical context, serving as a reference guide for students, practitioners, judges and scholars interested in procedural due process.

The author addresses the central requirements of notice and the opportunity to be heard as well as the day in court ideal. It also examines the protection due process affords against litigation in a distant forum with which the defendant has no connection.

Die Europaische Union wird in wenigen Jahren einen neuen Erweiterungsschub durch Lander auf dem Westbalkan und in Sudosteuropa erleben, denen bereits eine konkrete Beitrittsperspektive eingeraumt wurde. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert vor diesem Hintergrund das Beitrittsverfahren, das Bewerberlander beschreiten mussen. Sie fuhrt den Nachweis, dass dieses Verfahren mittlerweile in einer Weise verrechtlicht ist, die dem Charakter der Union als Rechtsgemeinschaft entspricht. Das zur Anwendung kommende Recht ist im Wesentlichen in der Unionsverfassung verankert und determiniert die...

In a 1994 decision known as Howard, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the Aboriginal signatories to the 1923 Williams Treaties had knowingly given up not only their title to off-reserve lands but also their treaty rights to hunt and fish for food. No other First Nations in Canada have ever been found to have willingly surrendered similar rights.

Peggy J. Blair gives the Howard decision considerable context. She examines federal and provincial bickering over "special rights" for Aboriginal peoples and notes how Crown policies toward Indian rights changed as settlement pressures...