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In American constitutional law, a statute is void for vagueness and unenforceable if it is too vague for the average citizen to understand. This is because constitutionally permissible activity may not be chilled because of a statute's vagueness (either because the statute is a penal statute with criminal or quasi-criminal civil penalties, or because the interest invaded by the vague law is ...
An unconstitutional constitutional amendment is a concept in judicial review based on the idea that even a properly passed and properly ratified constitutional amendment, specifically one that is not explicitly prohibited by a constitution's text, can nevertheless be unconstitutional on substantive (as opposed to procedural) grounds—such as due to this amendment conflicting with some ...
In constitutional law, constitutionality is said to be the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution ; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or set forth in the applicable constitution. When laws, procedures, or acts directly violate the constitution, they are unconstitutional. All others are considered constitutional unless the country ...
The Constitution does not contain any clause expressly providing that the states have the power to declare federal laws unconstitutional. Supporters of nullification have argued that the states' power of nullification is inherent in the nature of the federal system. They have argued that before the Constitution was ratified, the states essentially were separate nation
Because Wichita borrowed language directly from a state law that prohibits “engaging in noisy conduct tending to reasonably arouse alarm, anger or resentment in others,” the 6-1 ruling could ...
Virginia State Board of Elections that poll taxes for any level of elections were unconstitutional. It stated that these violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Subsequent litigation related to potential discriminatory effects of voter registration requirements has generally been based on application of this clause.
A federal judge has ruled Louisiana's new law requiring schools post Ten Commandments in classrooms as unconstitutional.
A law from the 1870s that subjected felons attempting to vote when ineligible to up to two years in prison was struck down Monday. North Carolina voting law declared unconstitutional for ...