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HISTORY: Sousa’s Band Under Ban of Sunday Blue Law
Binghamton, N. Y., November 13, 1922—Harold F. Albert, recreational director of the Endicott Johnson Corporation, was arrested yesterday afternoon on complaint of the Binghamton Ministerial Association for staging a concert by John Philip Sousa’s Band at which an admission was charged.
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Marriage Amendment: In California, your state constitutional rights are in the hands of your neighbors
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Michael Peabody
- June 22, 2008
- Akhil Amar
- ballot initiative
- California Constitution
- California Secretary of State
- California Supreme Court Marriage Amendment
- gay marriage
- Majoritarian
- Majoritarianism
- Michael Dorf
- Opinion
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Sunday Closing Laws
- Sunday Rest Laws
- tyranny of the majority
- Vikram Amar
There has been much discussion about the California ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriages from a moral / social / religious perspective, but not much about the concept of overturning court decisions by majority vote. Vikram David Amar at Findlaw writes in a post entitled, “The California Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Opinion: The People […]
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