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Constitutional interpretation.
… implicit assumption among legal theorists that constitutional interpretation is a specially problematic kind of legal interpretation. My goal is to clarify these and other misconceptions. In Chapter 2 I connect normative theories of adjudication to the concept of interpretation. In Chapters 3 …
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Inverse Constitutional AI
… datasets that are used to finetune LLMs. Inverse Constitutional AI (ICAI) is presented as a novel interpretability framework to discover the principles underlying preference datasets. Motivated by the Constitutional AI training paradigm of instilling principles in models, ICAI aims to extract a …
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… efforts to reconcile growing disharmonies in a constitutional system are no longer sufficient, requiring a new approach that will transform the identity of the constitutional order. The periodic need for transformative change has led scholars to analyze constitutional revolutions and their role …
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Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Legitimacy in Postcolonial States
… some postcolonial constitutions achieve higher constitutional legitimacy than others? Across the Global South, constitutions have proliferated while legitimacy remains uneven and contested. Existing scholarship explains variation in constitutional legitimacy in postcolonial states through three …
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State Constitutional Revision and the Urban Crisis: The Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention
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The Hermeneutical Reality of Constitutional Law: Understanding the Legality of Constitutional Adjudication
Under Turkey’s 1961 Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Turkey (CCRT) controversially invalidated several constitutional amendments. The prevailing explanatory paradigm about the CCRT, which I term the standard picture, suggests that these invalidations defy legal explanations. The standard …
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Informal constitutional change: towards a South African theory of unconstitutional constitutional change
… I explore the phenomenon of informal constitutional change. In particular: I focus on how courts are able to change the content, scope and meaning of a constitution without its text ever changing. Drawing on work in constitutional theory, I explore whether such change can be legitimate …
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The new constitutional law.
… to Congress his plan for establishing the constitutionality of the New Deal by packing the Supreme Court. All of the justices then sitting have been replaced by Roosevelt and Truman appointees. After an unprecedented outburst of destructive activity in 1935 and 1936, in which the Court …
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Republican Visions: Constitutional Thought and Constitutional Revision in the Eastern United States, 1815-1830
This dissertation examines how the first post-Revolutionary generation of American statesmen interpreted the concept of republican government. It pursues this investigation by analyzing American thought about the constitutions of the eastern states (the former thirteen colonies plus Vermont an
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Social Protests as Constitutional Interpretation
… manifested their discontent via playing by the constitutional rules of the game. Although governmental responses have varied in degree, in the end they have all focused on limiting the right of the people to publicly assemble and express their views. As this work contends, when governments …
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Constitutional Development in Zambia, 1890-1975
… and perpetuates by way of organic growth the constitutional development during the colonial period and even before. Though Zambia today is a one party state it has experienced different forms of administrations. The Zambia Independence Act 1964 an enactment of the British Parliament provided …
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Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
… Supreme Court. Therefore, same-sex marriage is constitutional.
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WwwPrivacygov: A constitutional and legislative review
… begins. Through a qualitative analysis, constitutional and legislative aspects will be brought forth to challenge the idea that self-regulation is feasible within the growing cyber nation. Final analysis will bring forward new policy proposals to counter current problems in this virtual …
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Presidential power and constitutional public administration.
… theory’s actual operation within the American constitutional order. Consequently, the New Deal’s creation of a vast federal bureaucratic apparatus—though responding to legitimate needs—was predicated upon an understanding of the separation of powers that clashed with the way power was …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
This dissertation examines the constitutional underpinnings of twentieth-century developments in the structure and function of the federal judicial system. In the half-century between 1891 and 1939, the federal judiciary underwent its first complete reorganization since the First Congress passed …
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Constitutional isomerism in liquid crystalline polyamides
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1988.
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The conception of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in comparison to the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Germany as well as South Africa have established Constitutional Courts. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, located in Karlsruhe (cf § 1 II BVerfGG), commenced its work in September 1951. Up to 1995 the Federal Constitutional Court heard more than 120,000 cases
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Constitutional privacy: The evolution of a doctrine
… the scope of governmental regulation. The constitutional defense of such freedoms have been regarded as Fourteenth Amendment due process guarantees to life, liberty, and property. In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruled that proscribing the use of contraceptives to married …
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Ethnic Politics and Constitutional Developments in Nigeria
<p>This project attempts to study Nigeria's colonial political parties and the consequences of British colonial policies as the foundation of ethnic issues in Nigeria's contemporary politics. It describes how particular colonial policies impact modern Nigerian politics, reinforce division among …
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Constitutional conventions in South Africa : a reappraisal
This work deals with aspects of constitutional development in South Africa from Union in 1910 until 1983. More specifically, it examines the important role played by constitutional conventions in this country, drawing extensively upon local, British and other Commonwealth materials for this …
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