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Sacred Justices: Seeking Indigenous Environmental Justice in Courts
… remedy present environmental harms and past injustices that are engendered in settler colonialism. Indigenous voices become paramount for such knowledge production. The thesis explores how Indigenous voices are received within adjudication through doctrinal analysis of Indigenous environmental …
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Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1569
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A Man Moste Meete': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1582
This dissertation is a national study of English justices of the peace (JPs) in the mid-Tudor era. It incorporates comparable data from the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and the Elizabeth I. Much of the analysis is quantitative in nature: chapters compare the appointments of justices of the peace …
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The Supreme Court, religion, and the intent of the Framers: an analysis of the sitting Justices' Establishment Clause philosophies
… or nonpreferentialism, do the individual Justices subscribe? 3) What are the various Establishment Clause issues that have been heard by the Court? 4) Do the individual Justices’ philosophies change depending on the issue? By studying the text of the First Amendment, events surrounding its …
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External Constraints and Internal Norms on the U.S. Supreme Court
… of consensus, the normative expectation that justices come to unanimous decisions without dissenting votes. Specifically, I tackle the tension between justices' pursuit of ideological objectives and institutional ones. In other words, I address the questions why the Court can come to consensus …
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God save this honorable court : religion as a source of judicial policy preferences
… largely by the policy preferences of the justices, political scientists ought to consider the source of those preferences. Religion is one force that can strongly shape a judge’s worldview and therefore her votes. In this paper, I examine the effect of religion on U.S. Supreme Court votes …
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Minor Courts And Communities At The Frontier: The Justice Of The Peace In Early Missouri
… MINOR COURTS AND COMMUNITIES AT THE FRONTIER JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN EARLY MISSOURI</strong></p> <p><strong>by</strong></p> <p><strong>BONNIE A. SPECK</strong></p> <p><strong>May 2011</strong></p> <p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Sandra VanBurkleo</p> <p><strong>Major</strong>: American Legal and …
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The justices of the peace and the administration of local government in the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire between 1680 and 1750
… a time when the country gentlemen who acted as Justices of the Peace were most autonomous. Yet it was also a period which witnessed some fundamental and permanent changes in the organisation and administration of local government. The thesis is divided into two. The first section contains four …
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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.
… visions of United States Supreme 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 …
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THE SERPENTINE WALL: JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING IN SUPREME COURT CASES INVOLVING AID TO SECTARIAN SCHOOLS
… examining decision making by the Supreme Court justices. The discussion of Everson v. Board of Education (1947) relies heavily on the private papers of individual justices, autobiographies, and biographies to determine the importance of personal religious beliefs, the history of the First …
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Partisanship, Election Reform and Decision-Making in the North Carolina Supreme Court: A Case Study
… of the Court\'s decisions and individual justices\' votes in these eras, I find no evidence to suggest that the nonpartisan system was associated with justices behaving in more "nonpartisan" ways. If there was any change, it was that during the nonpartisan era, the behavior of the justices …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Affirmative Action in Admission Processes
… this question.</p> <p>I discussed the Court Justices upbringing and how these will affect their decisions in this case. I examined previous affirmative action cases that some of the Justices worked on and what their decisions were. I considered these decisions along with interviews from …
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The Impact of Institutional Rules on the U.S. Supreme Court
… minutes to state its case. During this time, the justices are free to interrupt and so arguments are often characterized as a barrage of questions from the greatest legal minds our county has to offer. Despite this characterization -- of the Court rapidly firing questions at attorneys who struggle …
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The Role of the Circuit Courts in the Development of Federal Justice and the Shaping of United States Law in the Early Republic: Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson on Circuit and on the Court
… central role of their presiding Supreme Court justices in the successful development of a national court system drawn up from the ‘inferior’ courts rather than down from the Supreme Court to the lower jurisdictions. This thesis argues that, at a time when the Supreme Court had few cases to …
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The Political Economy of Argentine Development
… first measures was to impeach all Supreme Court justices. Peron's economic policies punished the rural conservatives by imposing rent and price controls. The new justices believed that retribution was legitimate given the fraud of the 1930s. None of these policies would have passed the Supreme …
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Local government and society in early modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, C. 1590-- 1630
… relationships, and personal tribulations of justices of the peace and other county officials from 1590 through 1630. The study addresses the nature of the relationship between local government and the central government, the social structure of the two counties as reflected in the annual …
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The role of perceptions on effective judicial access for the gay and lesbian and environmental social movements in Chile and Argentina
… examining the effect of societal, individual justices' and social movement activists' perceptions on the social movements' level of de facto judicial access. I find that while individual justices' perceptions of the social movement seeking rights can certainly affect the outcomes of cases, it …
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A More Global Court? Judicial Transnationalism and the U.S. Supreme Court
<p>For many decades, Supreme Court justices and legal scholars have argued over the validity of different tools in constitutional interpretation, including social science data, public opinion and, most recently, laws and standards of decency from abroad. Although several of those currently on the …
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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… republic.While the current Supreme Court justices have been unanimous in their opinion that houses of worship should possess at least a certain degree of autonomy, they have been much more divided concerning the scope of the rights of other religious organizations. For example, in the 2014 …
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