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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Scalia"”.
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The False Intent-Purpose Distinction In Textualism
… by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Textualism adopts twin interpretive commitments: (1) the meaning of a legislative text should be discerned by application of long-established canons of construction, the most important of which is that the text means what its words convey; …
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Religious liberty through the lens of textualism and a Living Constitution : the First Amendment Establishment Clause interpretations of Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia.
… Court Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia guide their interpretations of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. The paper begins by examining Establishment Clause basics, the United States legal system and judicial philosophies, and Establishment Clause jurisprudential history. …
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The Legacy of Anglo-American Textualism
… court judges, including the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Whilst the doctrine has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, few have considered its historical development. In this dissertation, textualism is analysed in order to uncover the core principles and sets of rules from which it is …
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The Supreme Court, religion, and the intent of the Framers: an analysis of the sitting Justices' Establishment Clause philosophies
… pertaining the Establishment Clause, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas, are consistently nonpreferentialist in their philosophical orientation. One justice, Stevens, is consistently separationist. Souter has written consistently separationist opinions, yet joined O’Connor’s nonpreferentialist …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
Ralph Waldo Emerson's publication of Nature in 1836 began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences. The subsequent lectures The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address furthered this process, calling for an …
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Identification and validation of screening methods for assessment of the sheening potential of embedded oil in sediments
Sediments impacted with petroleum hydrocarbons (oil) may sheen due to ebullition-driven transport or sediment disturbance. The goal of this project was to develop a screening method that can be deployed on a small autonomous watercraft that will provide a reliable indication of sheening potential …
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Characterizing tailings professional labor demand
A low-carbon future necessitates increased extraction of critical minerals via mining. The act of mining includes not only extraction of commodities, but also management of tremendous volumes of waste. Despite the need for mining to support green technologies, mining is experiencing a credibility …
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Limiting membrane and diffusion behavior of a compacted sand-bentonite mixture for hydraulic and chemical containment
Sodium-bentonite (Na-bentonite) commonly is used either as an additive component or as the sole component of engineered barriers used for waste containment applications, because the tendency of Na-bentonite to exhibit high swell can result in the restriction of advective and diffusive contaminant …
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Shear and consolidation behavior of slurry-deposited, desiccated tailings and compacted filtered tailings
The objective of this study was to (i) evaluate and compare the undrained shear behavior and (ii) the consolidation behavior of slurry-deposited and desiccated tailings versus compacted filtered tailings. In general, the evaluation supports the hypothesis that desiccation and resaturation of a hard …
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Selected factors affecting measurement of the hydraulic conductivity of geosynthetic clay liners
Geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) are thin (~7 to 10 mm), factory manufactured hydraulic barriers typically comprising a layer of sodium bentonite sandwiched between two geotextiles. Upon hydration and permeation with water at low effective stress (σ´) (e.g., typically ≤ ~30 kPa [4 psi]), the …
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Forecasting groundwater contaminant plume development using statistical and machine learning methods
A persistent challenge in predicting the fate and transport of groundwater contaminants is the inherent geologic heterogeneity of the subsurface. Contaminant movement has been primarily modeled by simplifying the geology and accepting assumptions to solve the advection- dispersion-reaction …