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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Constitution</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Boobs and &#8220;Boobies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/02/boobs-and-boobies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I received a news release from the Indiana ACLU announcing the organization&#8217;s representation of a middle-school student. As the release recounted the facts of the case, The minor child, &#8220;L.G.,&#8221; is a student at Roosevelt Middle School, which is part of the Twin Lakes School Corporation in Monticello, Ind. In early January, school officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Wrongs, Eroding Rights</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/two-wrongs-eroding-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/two-wrongs-eroding-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1%]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buckley v. Valeo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Pacs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[January 21st was the 2-year anniversary of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Citizens United.  The anniversary was marked with a number of protests, and an even larger number of news articles and blog posts documenting the dramatic growth of political &#8220;Super Pacs&#8221; and other unaccountable third-party political actors in the wake of that decision.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heckler&#8217;s Veto?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/the-hecklers-veto/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/01/the-hecklers-veto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Right to Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heckler's veto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Indiana Statehouse has been the focus of a lot of demonstrations over the years, and probably just as many efforts to abort&#8211;or at least minimize&#8211; those demonstrations. Remember when the KKK came to town? The argument was &#8220;We can&#8217;t let them use the Statehouse steps&#8211;people will riot and it will endanger public safety!&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong is Wrong</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/wrong-is-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/wrong-is-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[indefinite detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule of law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the election of Barack Obama, the GOP&#8211;aka &#8220;the party of no&#8221;&#8211;has shown impressive discipline, putting party orthodoxy ahead of both the common good and, frequently, sanity. The Democrats, on the other hand, have happily confirmed Will Rogers&#8217; great line: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a member of any organized political party; I&#8217;m a Democrat.&#8221; The left wing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Gun Rights Trump All Other Rights?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/why-do-gun-rights-trump-all-other-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/why-do-gun-rights-trump-all-other-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflicting rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana legislature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog know, I&#8217;m a pretty rabid civil libertarian. But even I know that my right to free speech doesn&#8217;t mean I can stomp into your living room to harangue you. My right to free exercise of religion doesn&#8217;t include the right to impose that religion on students in my public university [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Body Politic</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/the-body-politic/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/the-body-politic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body politic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic literacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I&#8217;ll chair a Spirit and Place Panel on &#8220;The Body Politic&#8221; at the Indiana Statehouse. I hope some of you can attend; for those who can&#8217;t, here are my introductory remarks. I’d like to introduce the panel: Eric Meslin is Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the IU School of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intriguing&#8211;and Disquieting&#8211;Analysis of Citizens United</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/intriguing-and-disquieting-analysis-of-citizens-united/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/intriguing-and-disquieting-analysis-of-citizens-united/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expressive freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A paper delivered at the Law and Society conference I attended raised some interesting points about the Citizens United decision that I haven&#8217;t seen elsewhere. While there has been a lot of criticism of the Court&#8217;s classification of corporations as people, this presentation asked a more basic (albeit related) question: what was the &#8220;speech&#8221; that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie White, the GOP, and the Rule of Law</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/charlie-white-the-gop-and-the-rule-of-law/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/charlie-white-the-gop-and-the-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the Republicans in the Statehouse passed House Bill 1242, changing the election law in order to avoid the consequences of having run an ineligible candidate, my husband shook his head. &#8220;It&#8217;s enough to make you ashamed of ever having been a Republican.&#8221; This from a man who worked for the GOP for over fifty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Like This Law So It Must Be Unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/i-dont-like-this-law-so-it-must-be-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/i-dont-like-this-law-so-it-must-be-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutionality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I spoke to a high school government class, filled with bright high school seniors who have thus far escaped any meaningful encounter with the U.S. Constitution.It came as a surprise to most of them, for example, that the Bill of Rights applies only against government. So we talked a good deal about the limits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Presses! ACLU Supports Christian Athletes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/aclu-supports-christian-athletes-when-theyre-right/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/aclu-supports-christian-athletes-when-theyre-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great myths promulgated by the Christian Right is that the ACLU is &#8220;anti-religion&#8221; and &#8220;anti-Christian.&#8221; Those bent on demonizing the organization conveniently overlook the many cases in which the ACLU represents the rights of religious folks. When I was Executive Director of Indiana&#8217;s ACLU, it used to irritate me that we got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Civic Literacy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/restoring-civic-literacy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/restoring-civic-literacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civics education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following text is a speech I recently gave to the Indianapolis Chapter of the League of Women Voters about the abysmal state of historical/constitutional knowledge in America. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; When I was asked to speak, my “assignment”—or at least my intention—was to discuss one of my recent books, “Distrust, American Style.” In that book, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Framing the Framework</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/framing-the-framework/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/framing-the-framework/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Constitution Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer may be defective in sexual morality (not to mention taste), but he made a very important point in a recent speech reported by ACS&#8211;the American Constitution Society. As the ACS blog put it: Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, during a keynote speech at an ACS event examining corporations&#8217; influence on the federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federalism &amp; Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/federalism-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/federalism-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I see that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has filed a “friend of the court” brief, urging the First Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court decision invalidating the “Defense of Marriage Act.” The court held that marriage is a state issue over which the federal legislature lacks authority. I would have expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Constitutional Culture</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/01/a-constitutional-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/01/a-constitutional-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the horrific shooting in Tucson last month, PBS’ Mark Shields made an “only in America” observation. “This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paging Civics Teachers</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/08/paging-civics-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/08/paging-civics-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are all the high-school civics teachers when you need them? During the past few weeks, we have been treated to an absolute bonanza of constitutional ineptitude: we’ve had Dr. Laura explaining her departure from radio as an effort to get her First Amendment rights back; continuation of the ugly, ginned-up controversy over Muslims building [...]]]></description>
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