In Wisconsin v. Yoder,' the Supreme Court held that a schoolattendance law requiring parents to send their children to school until the age of sixteen violated Amish parents' free exercise of religion, and infringed their right to direct the religious upbringig of their children.2 Over Justice Douglas' partial dissent,3 the Court limited its analysis to consideration of the constitutional right...

The rule of law is a cornerstone of contemporary constitutional democracy1 as was underscored by its role in cementing the recent transitions from authoritarian or totalitarian regimes2 to constitutional democracy in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.3 In the broadest terms, the rule of law requires that the state only subject the citizenry to publicly promulgated laws, that the state’s legislative ...

insulting to prophet or imam is obscene, shameful and insupportable for any muslim, so the person who insults must be killed. any where that there is no islamic government or it has not been ordained any rule about killing insulter; killing insulter has no retaliation (punishment). but when legislator especially issued a rule for killing punishment in article513 for the crime of insulting to pr...

II. THE PREDICAMENTS OF IMPLEMENTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN TAIWAN............................................................................................ 148 A. The General Situation: The Grand Justices Build Taiwan’s Constitutional Law on Different Countries’ Constitutional Jurisprudence. ........................................................................... 149 B. Four Features of Current ...