United States constitutional law is the body of law governing the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution.
Read more about United States Constitutional Law: The Due Process Clause (Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments), The Equal Protection Clause (Fourteenth Amendment), The Takings Clause, The Contracts Clause, The Ex Post Facto Clause, The Prohibition On Bills of Attainder, Federal Enforcement of Civil Rights
Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or law:
“United States! the ages plead,—
Present and Past in under-song,—
Go put your creed into your deed,—
Nor speak with double tongue.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)