Protecting privacy: what states can and cannot do
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Proponents of privacy rights are preferring to bring cases to the state courts. The current US Supreme Court's restrictive view of privacy rights is leading privacy advocates to avoid the federal court system. However, these advocates should know the strengths and weaknesses in the state constitutions' protection of privacy. State constitutions may imply privacy rights even if such guarantees are not stated explicitly. Moreover, state constitutional law is subject to political pressure since state judges are often elected.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 1992
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The constitutional right to "conservative" revolution
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The constitutional right to revolution is not an oxymoron, but for a revolution to be constitutional, it would have to be an attempt to preserve or return to constitutional values. Critics that see constitutionalism and revolution in complete conflict mistakenly equate overthrowing the government with overthrowing the constitutional order. The coexistence of revolution and constitution can both add stability and continuity to the process of revolution and provide a check against unconstitutional governments.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1997
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United Nations special rapporteur calls upon United States to halt executions
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The UN's Special Rapporteur, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, made a US visit in late 1997 to investigate allegations that international instruments' fair trial procedures and provisions limiting the death penalty were not being followed in the US. The report recommended that the US stop executions until able to ensure that litigation of death penalty cases is fair, impartial and in accordance with due process. The Special Rapporteur also notes that people opposed to the death penalty are less likely to sit on a jury.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 1998
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