Suchergebnisse

Constitutional interpretation in the Court's first decades / Walter Berns -- Interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment: approaches in Slaughter-House and Plessy / Charles F. Lofgren -- On the structure of privacy: Adair and Coppage revisited / Hadley Arkes -- Constitutional rights in a federal system: rethinking incorporation and reverse incorporation in Patterson and Gitlow / Akhil Reed Amar -- The right to be let alone: constitutional privacy in Griswold, Roe, and Bowers / Nadine Strossen -- Shall we ratify the new constitution? the judicial manifesto in Casey and Lee / Gerard V. Bradley -- Toward a structural approach to constitutional interpretation / Mary Ann Glendon

IT IS NOW WIDELY RECOGNIZED THAT THE 1990 BUDGET AGREEMENT WAS THE GREATEST MISTAKE OF THE BUSH PRESIDENCY. BY ITS OWN CRITERIA, THE AGREEMENT FAILED TO REDUCE EITHER FEDERAL SPENDING OR THE BUDGET DEFICIT. BY RAISING TAXES WITHOUT SOLVING ANY LONG-TERM STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING, THE AGREEMENT HAS PENALIZED THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE SHORT TERM AND REDUCED LONG-TERM CONFIDENCE IN THE HEALTH OF THE ECONOMY. THUS, THE AGREEMENT HAS CONTRIBUTED TO BOTH THE DEPTH AND THE LENGTH OF THE RECESSION. MOREOVER, THE POLITICAL MISTAKES OF THE BUDGET AGREEMENT WERE AS SERIOUS AS THE ECONOMIC MISTAKES. THE POLITICAL DAMAGE TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WILL HAUNT THE PRESIDENT EVEN IF HE WINS RE-ELECTION.