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Justice Scalia: Constitutional Text versus ?Values Behind? approach to Constitutional interpretation
Eugene Volokh has this post discussing some of Justice Scalia’s comments on constitutional interpretation that are contained in today’s 6th Amendment ruling in Giles v...

Parental Rights, Constitutional Wrongs: Religious Right Pushes New Constitutional Amendment
Some ideas don?t improve well with age. Consider the Parental Rights Amendment (PRA). Back in the mid-1990s, some Religious Right activists got the idea to add an amendment to the Constitution protecting ?parental rights...

Turkey's Constitutional Court Invalidates Constitutional Changes On Headscarves
Hurriyet reported yesterday that Turkey's Constitutional Court has struck down constitutional amendments adopted in February designed to lift the ban on wearing of Muslim headscarves at universities...

Turkey?s Constitutional Court Invalidates Constitutional Changes On Headscarves
Religion Clause Blog reports: “Hurriyet reported yesterday that Turkey’s Constitutional Court has struck down constitutional amendments adopted in February designed to lift the ban on wearing of Muslim headscarves at universities...

The Relevance of State Constitutional Rights to A Federal Constitutional Right:
Eugene suggests that the existence of state constitutional rights is relevant to whether there is an analogous federal constitutional right because it sheds light on "whether the right is firmly...

Constitutional "Is" Versus Constitutional "Ought" -- A Brief Reply to Barnett and Jost:
Looking over the exchange between Randy Barnett and Timothy Jost on what it means to say something is "unconstitutional," I wonder if their disagreement is primarily semantic...