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  2. Federalist No. 44 - Wikipedia

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    It was first published by The New York Packet on January 25, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published. This essay addresses the Constitution's limitation of the power of individual states, something strongly decried by the Anti-Federalists, who sought a greater degree of sovereignty for the ...

  3. Entick v Carrington - Wikipedia

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    Entick v Carrington [1765] EWHC KB J98 is a leading case in English law and UK constitutional law establishing the civil liberties of individuals and limiting the scope of executive power. [1] The case has also been influential in other common law jurisdictions and was an important motivation for the Fourth Amendment to the United States ...

  4. Necessary in a democratic society - Wikipedia

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    The test was developed in the Handyside v.United Kingdom, Silver v. United Kingdom, and Lingens v. Austria cases, related to freedom of expression. It has also been invoked in cases involving state surveillance, which the court acknowledges can constitute an Article 8 violation but may be "strictly necessary for safeguarding the democratic institutions" (Klass and Others v.

  5. Civil liberties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Civil liberties are simply defined as individual legal and constitutional protections from entities more powerful than an individual, for example, parts of the government, other individuals, or corporations. The explicitly defined liberties make up the Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the right to privacy ...

  6. Substantive due process - Wikipedia

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    Following the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause prompted substantive due process interpretations to be urged on the Supreme Court as a limitation on state legislation. Initially, however, the Supreme Court rejected substantive due process as it came to be understood, including in the seminal Slaughter-House Cases . [ 18 ]

  7. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies.The specific problem is: both sourced and unsourced criticisms of the country's human rights record (major WP:UNDUE and WP:BALANCE issues; the article should not resemble a database for every possible criticism of the U.S. human rights record found on Google; instead, it should rely on reliable sources, preferably ...

  8. Limited government - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Constitution achieved limited government through a separation of powers: "horizontal" separation of powers distributed power among branches of government (the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, each of which provide a check on the powers of the other); "vertical" separation of powers divided power between the federal ...

  9. Federalist No. 10 - Wikipedia

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    Federalist No. 10 is an essay written by James Madison as the tenth of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays initiated by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. It was first published in The Daily Advertiser (New York) on November 22, 1787, under the name "Publius". Federalist No. 10 is among the ...