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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: United States Eleventh Amendment case law, Chisholm v. Georgia, Oneida County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. State, Parker immunity doctrine, City of Boerne v. Flores, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, Seminole Tribe v. Florida, Ex parte Young, Edelman v. Jordan, Northern Insurance Company of New York v. Chatham County, Giles v. Harris, Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police, Parker v. Brown, Alden v. Maine, Hans v. Louisiana, Tennessee v. Lane, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, California Retail Liquor Dealers Association v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc., College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board, Central Virginia Community College v. Katz, Idaho v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho, Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, Abrogation doctrine, Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon, Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank, Osborn v. Bank of the United States, Chittister v. Department of Community & Economic Development. Excerpt: Oneida Cnty. v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. State, 470 U.S. 226 (1985), is a landmark decision concerning aboriginal title in the United States. The case was "the first Indian land claim case won on the basis of the Nonintercourse Act." The Supreme Court held that Indian tribes have a common law cause of action for possessory land claims based upon aboriginal title, that the Nonintercourse Act did not preempt that cause of action, and that the cause of action was not barred by a statute of limitations, abatement, implicit federal ratification, or nonjusticiability. Four dissenting justices would have held for the counties on the defense of laches, a question which the majority did not reach, but expressed doubts about. Furthermore, the court held...

Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. This book examines the origins of that principle in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596). As the author argues in this study, Bodin's most lasting theoretical contribution was his thesis that sovereignty must be conceptualized as an indivisible bundle of legal rights constitutive of statehood. While these uniform 'rights of sovereignty' licensed all states to exercise numerous exclusive powers, including the absolute power to 'absolve' and release its citizens from legal duties, they were ultimately derived from, and therefore limited by, the law of nations. The book explores Bodin's creative synthesis of classical sources in philosophy, history, and the medieval legal science of Roman and canon law in crafting the rules governing state-centric politics. The Right of Sovereignty is the first book in English on Bodin's legal and political theory to be published in nearly a half-century and surveys themes overlooked in modern Bodin scholarship: empire, war, conquest, slavery, citizenship, commerce, territory, refugees, and treaty obligations. It will interest specialists in political theory and the history of modern political thought, as well as legal history, the philosophy of law, and international law.

In October 1999, some fifteen academic experts and government practitio ners from Germany and North America gathered for two days at the Uni ver sity of Augsburg to discuss the topic of "Constitutional Reform and Consti tutional Jurisprudence in Canada and the United States." The present volume documents the results of that conference, a collaborative effort of the De partment of Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the Institute for Canadian Studies, University of Augsburg. In organizing this workshop, we were guided by two basic sets of ideas and assumptions: First, all "established" democracies are regularly confron ted with the need to adjust their constitutional order to changes in their envi ronment lest democratic stability be transformed into rigidity; in many wes tern nations, including Canada and the United States, developments such as the crisis of the Keynesian welfare-state or the emergence of increasingly heterogeneous, postmodern societies have ushered in an era of heightened, yet not always successful constitutional reform activity. Secondly, however, there is no unique path towards, or model of, an "optimal" constitutional order, however defined; rather, constitutional reform processes, their under Iying normative principles and their outcomes are strongly path and context dependent. Therefore, the participants of the workshop and authors of this volume were asked to examine the specific preconditions, context, nature and impact of recent constitutional reform processes in the Uni ted States and Canada.

First published in 1954, this indispensable reference quickly became the gold standard for concise summaries of important U.S. Supreme Court cases. The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 15th edition has been extensively revised to ensure that it remains the most up-to-date resource available. An essential resource for law students, lawyers, and everyone interested in our nation's Constitution and the Supreme Court decisions that explicate it.