Word: powers
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...Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) created a "civil right to be free from gender motivated violence," according to MacKinnon, but Fried, who is also Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS), argued Congress exceeded its Constitutional power by passing...
...then argued that making the law was a Congressional power within the commerce clause of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment...
MacKinnon also cited the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law to all citizens as a guarantee of the law's constitutionality. She argued that the bias against women in state justice systems deprives them of equal protection and that Congress can use its power granted by the Fourteenth Amendment to remedy those violations with the VAWA...
...past and the future, theocracy and democracy, the establishment and reform. Reformist President Mohammed Khatami was reelected to office in February with a majority reform government. Iran's youth have placed their hopes for change in him. Yet the judiciary, controlled by conservative clerics, is doing everything in its power to prevent reform. Last week, 16 pro-democracy newspapers were ordered closed by the high courts of Iran. The charge: The papers are suspected of insulting Islam and "spreading corruption." Acting immediately, the courts did not wait to see their accusations validated by a hearing or a trial...
...clergy the excuse it needs to declare Khatami incapable of maintaining national stability. The delicate give and take between the clerics and Khatami's government has been sorely tried since the February election. However, Khatami has been wise not to give the conservative clerics an excuse to seize power, despite their resistance to reform...