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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Constitution</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>A Widespread Misunderstanding</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/a-widespread-misunderstanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent comment posted to this blog demonstrates a widespread&#8211;and pernicious&#8211;misunderstanding of the role of the U.S. Constitution. The commenter demanded to know where there was any reference to healthcare in the constitution. The answer, of course, is that no such reference exists&#8211;just as there&#8217;s no reference to, say, smoking. Or marriage. Or the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conserving Our System</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/conserving-our-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What passes for political discourse these days is so debased, so irrational, that we no longer even think about the real meanings of the words we throw around. So &#8220;socialist&#8221; is conflated with &#8220;Nazi&#8221; (and used without any obvious understanding of what the term describes) and &#8220;conservative&#8221; is used to describe positions that are anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facts, Law and Mike Delph</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/facts-law-and-mike-delph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend who uses Twitter sent me a series of Tweets from Mike Delph today. Most railed against &#8220;activist&#8221; judges (beginning with Chief Justice Marshall&#8217;s decision in Marbury v. Madison) and the &#8220;elites that control them.&#8221; Others were&#8211;frankly&#8211;incomprehensible, not to mention ungrammatical. The one sentiment that came through loud and clear is that Delph is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics We Deserve</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/the-politics-we-deserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 01:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My speech to the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Community Relations Council. ___________ We have just emerged from one of the most depressing sessions of the Indiana legislature I can remember. It was anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-teacher, anti-public-employee…We passed a mean-spirited and largely unconstitutional immigration bill. We defunded Planned Parenthood, in violation of federal law, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing What We Want to See</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/seeing-what-we-want-to-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ayn Rand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided that people don&#8217;t really read for information&#8211;instead, we (and I include myself in that &#8220;we&#8221;) read for validation. We look for evidence that supports what we already believe. It is one of those all-too-human tendencies we need to fight. We see this selective approach most clearly in the way people read the bible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Originalism</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/tea-party-originalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Schultz is a colleague (and co-author of my recent textbook, American Public Service: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations) who has written a timely article for Salon. It’s the sort of article that should be read by the very folks who won’t read it, because it actually takes one of the Tea Party’s avowed purposes—constitutional originalism—seriously. [...]]]></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>
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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>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>
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		<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>When Will We Ever Learn?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/08/when-will-we-ever-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Idea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an anti-war song from the sixties that I always loved, titled “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” The refrain was “oh, when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” I’ve thought about that refrain a lot lately, as America has increasingly retreated into one of the ugliest nativist episodes in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Void for Vagueness</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/void-for-vagueness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult constitutional principles to teach, for reasons I really don&#8217;t understand, is the rule that in order to be constituional, a law must be sufficiently precise to allow citizens to know what behaviors will be sanctioned. If a law does not meet that standard, we say it is &#8220;void for vagueness.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Our Terms</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/10/defining-our-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/10/defining-our-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil liberty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going through a file earlier today, and came across an entry I wrote a couple of years ago for the Encyclopedia of the Constitution. My task was to define &#8220;civil liberty.&#8221; Sometimes, it&#8217;s good to remind ourselves what our civil liberties are&#8211;and why they matter. Here&#8217;s what I wrote: Civil liberty is the [...]]]></description>
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