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Faculty Article: Footnotes

1. See John O. McGinnis, Foreign to Our Constitution, 100 Nw. U.L. Rev. 303 (2006).


2. See David A. Strauss, Common Law, Common Ground, and Jefferson’s Principle, 112 Yale L. J. 1717 (2003).


3. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities(2006 ed.).


4. See Stephen G. Calabresi,“A Shining City on a Hill”: American Exceptionalism and the Supreme Court’s Practice of Relying on Foreign Law, 86 B.U. L. Rev. 1335 (2006).


5. Plessy, 163 U.S. 537 (1896); Brown, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).


6. 381 U.S. 479, 497 (1965) (Goldberg, J., concurring).


7. Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, 497 U.S. 547, 635 (1990) (Kennedy, J., dissenting). See Adarand Constructors v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200 (1995) (overruling Metro Broadcasting v FCC).


8. Lawrence, 539 U.S. 558, 576-77 (2003); Grutter, 539 U.S. 306, 344-45 (2003) (Ginsburg, J., concurring).


9. 384 U.S. 436 (1966).


10. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 593-94 (1952) (Frankfurter, J., concurring).


11. 149 U.S. 698 (1893).


12. Id. at 757 (emphasis added) (Field, J., dissenting).


13. Weems v. United States, 217 U.S. 349, 368- 69, 377 (1910).


14. Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 102-03 (1958) (plurality opinion).