Steven Gow Calabresi
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The “born free and equal” clauses and the right to pursue a profession of one’s choice (opens the original)
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This is the last of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, in 24 out of 37 state constitutions when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, and which is in 37 out of 50 state constitutions today. The “born free and equal” clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of
The “born free and equal” clauses and the noxious Buck v. Bell (opens the original)
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This is the fifth of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, in 24 out of 37 state constitutions when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, and is in 37 out of 50 state constitutions today. The “born free and equal” clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
The “born free and equal” clauses and same-sex marriage (opens the original)
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This is the fourth of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, and in 24 out of 37 state constitutions when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. The “born free and equal” clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, for example, provided that: In my initial a
The “born free and equal” clauses and Lawrence v. Texas (opens the original)
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This is the third of seven introductory articles on the relevance for constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and in six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, and in 24 out of 37 state constitutions when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. The “born free and equal” clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, for example, provided that: In my first two articles, I showed tha
There is no constitutional “right to privacy” (opens the original)
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This is the second of five introductory articles on the relevance for U.S. constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the Declaration of Independence and six out of 12 state constitutions when the federal Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, for example, provided that: In my inaugural column, I showed that the born-free-and-equal idea is also reflected in, among other places: 1) Justice Bushrod Washington’s seminal 1823 opin
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