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Shelby County v. Holder: The Future of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Shelby County v. Holder: The Future of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

March 26, 2013 at 8:00 am 1 comment

An Interview with Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute by Ryan P. Mulvey: Shelby County v. Holder is one of the more interesting, even controversial, cases at the Supreme Court this term.  It concerns the constitutionality of portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an historic piece of civil […]

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The Patchwork World: From State Sovereignty to Secessionism

The Patchwork World: From State Sovereignty to Secessionism

December 3, 2012 at 10:00 am 0 comments

by Matthew Cavedon Writing in the New York Times this week, Roger Cohen took modern secessionist movements to task as reactionary forces in an increasingly global world. He has his argument backwards—secessionism is increasingly influential precisely because of modern interconnectedness. “So much for globalization, the disappearance of frontiers in Europe, […]

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