A Lexicon of Three U.S. Constitutional Provisions

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Год выпуска 2012

The three provisions of the U.S. Constitution, Full Faith and Credit Clause, the Privileges and Immunities Clause and the Equal Protection Clause have been presenting problems of understanding for lawyers and jurists since about the time the Constitution was drafted. They apply to so many different factual situations that they defy a cogent description or definition. To solve this dilemma Professor Emeritus Maloy, in his usual adroit manner, has stated verbatim five Uniform Acts and analyzed almost 700 cases in which courts have resolved issues concerning the provisions under examination. This lexicon (word book) has been constructed with the assistance of three brilliant people - two lawyers and a sagacious layman, as well as the scholarly tome "Making Our Democracy Work," recently written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer, - to whom this book has been dedicated. Only with an understanding of the cases considering the clauses and the observations of a knowledgeable jurist can an understanding of the Constitutional provisions be gained. They cannot be succinctly described. The cases are presented in short understandable wording, with an in-depth presentation of a few of the more complicated ones.This book has, of course, been written for lawyers, but also for those many laymen who have expressed to the author, an interest in those often considered, but seldom completely understood, terms so often used in American jurisprudence.Professor Richard H.W. Maloy ho...