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Government Type:  Parliamentary monarchy operating under the Spanish constitution of 1978. The three familiar branches: legislative, executive, judiciary. Legal System: Civil law, which comes down ...

Get to Know Another Country’s Judiciary: Spain

Government Type:  Parliamentary monarchy operating under the Spanish constitution of 1978. The three familiar branches: legislative, executive, judiciary. Legal System: Civil law, which comes down ...

Spanish judiciary
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By Hon. David J. Dreyer A few years ago, in the first two days after my state began recognizing same-sex marriages, I officiated over 50 such marriages. For reasons I did not expect, it changed my life. ...

What it was like officiating the first same-sex marriages

By Hon. David J. Dreyer A few years ago, in the first two days after my state began recognizing same-sex marriages, I officiated over 50 such marriages. For reasons I did not expect, it changed my life. ...

same-sex marriage, Marion Superior Court
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In 1974, in Parker v. Levy, 417 US 733, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution can be applied differently in the military context because of th...

Did military courts just lose their right to be different? Five takeaways from Ortiz v. United States

In 1974, in Parker v. Levy, 417 US 733, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution can be applied differently in the military context because of th...

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