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  • Bagehot on the American Presidential system

    Carl Gardner
    November 5, 2008

    On the day after Barack Obama’s election, I thought you might be interested in what Walter Bagehot said about the presidential form of government, in his famous 19th century work, The English Constitution:

    the […]

    Tags: bagehot, constitution, US constitution
  • Will Obama be the 44th U.S. President?

    Carl Gardner
    November 5, 2008

    I’m not a day late with this post; and yes, I do realise what happened last night. I’m pretty confident Obama will be inaugurated as 44th president on January 20.

    Constitutionally, though, he’s not even been elected yet because […]

    Tags: US constitution
  • Boumediene and others v Bush: the Supreme Court’s Guantanamo ruling

    Carl Gardner
    June 14, 2008

    I’ve not posted yet on this important case from the US Supreme Court: I’m sorry, there’s just been too much fun happening in the British Isles this week. But I mustn’t keep you from the judgment itself; here’s a […]

    Tags: human rights, terrorism, US constitution, US Supreme Court
  • The sixth amendment and confrontation of witnesses

    Carl Gardner
    June 9, 2008

    The trial of Al Qaeda suspects in the US big news at the moment of course – with Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and others having appeared before a military tribunal on Friday. I’m interested, though, in this Federal Court […]

    Tags: crime, evidence, terrorism, united states, US constitution
  • United States v Williams

    Carl Gardner
    May 22, 2008

    Before I leave the Big Apple, a leader in today’s New York Times drew my attention to this US Supreme Court case in which a federal law on child pornography has been upheld as constitutional.

    The Times […]

    Tags: children, freedom of expression, US constitution, US Supreme Court
  • California: gay people have right to marry

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2008

    I’m blogging lite, as you know, but must while in the U.S. of A. mention the decision of the California Supreme Court, which has ruled that gay people have a constitutional right to marry their same-sex partners, just as […]

    Tags: discrimination, family, human rights, sexual orientation, US constitution
  • Baze v Rees: Supreme Court judgment on lethal injection

    Carl Gardner
    May 12, 2008

    I did say there might be some blawging lite from the US, where I’m currently staying with my cousin Cara in Las Vegas (that’s right!), so here is an all-American caffeine-and sugar-free post, with the judgment (given a few weeks […]

    Tags: human rights, US constitution, US Supreme Court
  • Dershowitz v Huckabee

    Carl Gardner
    January 19, 2008

    This isn’t a case in the US Supreme Court, I’m sorry to say, but a piece at Huffington Post in which the famous lawyer lays into the evangelical candidate Mike (how am I not myself?) Huckabee’s […]

    Tags: religion, US constitution
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