Posts Tagged void for vagueness
Void for Vagueness
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Constitution on November 18th, 2009
One of the most difficult constitutional principles to teach, for reasons I really don’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 “void for vagueness.” [...]
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