The right to privacy is a firmly entrenched democratic principle that has been inferred in the U.S. Constitution and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment as a liberty of personal autonomy.I Although the Constitution does not include language that explicitly details privacy protections, since the 1800s justices have interpreted the text as promoting the "right to be left alone."2 Evidence of co...

States producing gas and oil have long levied severance taxes at the point of extraction, commonly placing most revenues into general funds. These taxes have assumed new meaning in many states amid the expansion of gas and oil production accompanying the advent of hydraulic fracturing. We reviewed all major statutes and constitutional amendments related to severance taxes that were enacted at t...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of amendments Constitution Russian Federation passe in 2020 concerning protection family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood as a subject joint jurisdiction constituent entities Federation. It proved that this legal norm does not relate declarative norms defines only issue between differentiation federal regional state authorities. purpose adopted amendmen...

The debate over same-sex marriage in the U.S. is taking place in the legal sphere in the court system as well as in the public sphere leading up to various state ballot initiatives. In an earlier project, I analyzed the differences in argumentation in the technical and public spheres in 2008 concerning Proposition 8 in California (Schiappa 2012). My colleagues and I found that the norms and pra...

Until 2013, the Brazilian executive branch had control over execution of all discretionary public spending. In that context, legislators could do was amend budget proposal prepared by government. This article analyzes whether EC 86/2015, known as mandatory amendment EC, has reduced dominance financial cycle individual amendments. To this end, we examine descriptively and inferentially main chan...

This research discusses the state institutional format in Constitution of 1945 after amendment. Since had four changes from 1999 to 2022, so need know what implications for all institutions. The is supreme law land Indonesian legal system, which was used as basis social practice, nation, and state. a normative approach formation accordance with its designation or not. study content juridical do...

The development of the institution self-government in Russia previous decades faced numerous systemic problems resource, organizational and social nature, which led to dependence it on state power. Further integration into unified system power Russian Federation was secured by constitutional amendments 2020. However, at regional level, particularly regions Southwestern Siberia, process centrali...

In the latest volume of Bruce Ackerman’s We the People, he sets out to demonstrate that the Constitution has been legitimately amended by “unconventional” means, or by mechanisms other than the Article V amendment process. In making this argument, Ackerman offers a rich constitutional history of the Founding period, the Reconstruction era, and the New Deal. He successfully demonstrates that unc...