• The constitutional law of the United States is the body of law governing the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution. The...
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  • In United States constitutional law, the police power is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the...
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    arrest of an individual without sufficient cause. In most nations, such as the United States, India, and Singapore, constitutional law is based on the text...
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    amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution...
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  • Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit certain disproportionate sentences. Further, the Cruel and Unusual...
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  • union of states. Constitutional rights may be expressly stipulated in a national constitution, or they may be inferred from the language of a national...
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    The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which...
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    The United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States since taking effect in 1789. The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia...
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    source of rights claims." United States v. Rhodes (1866), one of the first Thirteenth Amendment cases, tested the constitutionality of provisions in the Civil...
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    The Constitutional Union Party was a United States third party active during the 1860 elections. It consisted of conservative former Whigs, largely from...
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  • The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it...
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  • William B. (2002). "Hate Speech in the Constitutional Law of the United States". The American Journal of Comparative Law. 50: 463–492. doi:10.2307/840886...
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  • constitutional law) is derived from the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which states that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution...
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  • Freedom of movement under United States law is governed primarily by the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the United States Constitution which states, "The...
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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
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    The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of...
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    The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...
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  • In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms is modulated by a variety of state and federal statutes. These laws generally regulate the manufacture...
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    contradicts or violates the provisions of existing law, a State Constitution, or ultimately the United States Constitution. While the U.S. Constitution does...
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    related to Constitutional Convention (United States). Notes of debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison Constitutional Convention...
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    the United States, federalism is the constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States....
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    United States is governed by the United States Constitution and by federal and state laws. Several constitutional amendments (the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and...
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    United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality. In the United States, nationality is typically...
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  • United States obscenity law deals with the regulation or suppression of what is considered obscenity and therefore not protected speech or expression...
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    The United Kingdom constitutional law concerns the governance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. With the oldest continuous...
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    to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, 5th ed (London: Macmillan and Co, 1897) at 175-84, cited in "Rule of Law", Centre for Constitutional Studies...
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    participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 which drafted the Constitution. Some U.S. states did not observe a strict separation of powers in the 18th...
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  • United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United States Code. History of immigration to the United States History...
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  • Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal laws which they deem...
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  • The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect...
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