Duncan's Con Law Course Blog

The web log for Prof. Duncan's Constitutional Law Classes at Nebraska Law-- "[U]nder our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. " -----Justice Antonin Scalia If you allow the government to take your liberty during times of crisis, it will create a crisis whenever it wishes to take your liberty.

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Con Law I: Class Five (May 24 2021) Assignment

Con Law I: Class Five (May 24 2021) Assignment

6 Federalism Electoral Votes, Equal Representation in the Senate and The Seventeenth Amendment: Read Suzanna Sherry, Our Unconstitutional Senate, 12 Constitutional Commentary 213-215 (1995) [available to print out at Hein Online]; Zywickie-Somin Debate on Repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment (link);Duncan, Electoral Votes, the Senate, and Article V: How the Architecture of the Constitution Promotes Federalism and Government by Consensus (link); Chiafalo v. Washington (Justice Kagan's majority opinion only) Link

7. Casebook p. 103-137

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