Constitutional Law Laws Vermont 
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Come November 8, Vermont residents will have the opportunity to amend their state constitution and abolish slavery and indentured servitude for good. To be clear, Vermont does not currently allow either in any form, but there is antiquated language in the state constitution that allows for certain exceptions.
HowAppealing
JUNE 3, 2021
“Chances grow that Supreme Court will take up Maine’s ban on religious school funding”: Matthew Stone of The Bangor Daily News has an article that begins, “A new federal court opinion in Vermont improves the chances that a Maine case challenging the state’s ban on public funding for religious schools could end up before (..)
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 22, 2022
States opposed to slavery, like Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, had precursor state constitutional provisions recognizing the right to bear arms. Law enforcement was relatively scarce at the time, even in the more populous states. In his famous 1770 defense of Capt.
JonathanTurley
JULY 30, 2021
Issues long debated over other grounds — the Senate’s filibuster rule , voter ID laws , even standardized testing , math , statistics and meritocracy — have all been reframed as a choice between racism and equality. Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 12, 2024
In September 1848, Gage, twenty-five, was working as a railroad foreman in Cavendish, Vermont. Much of this early knowledge came from tragic stories like that of Phineas Gage and his tamping iron. His crew was removing rock to lay track and, as the foreman, it fell to Gage to set the charge.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 8, 2021
We previously discussed the Vermont principal who was removed for expressing her opinion of Black Lives Matter on her personal Facebook page. Last year, Winthrop University Professor, April Mustian threatened K-12 teachers that they are being watched for any “rhetoric” deemed pro-police or anti-Black.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 19, 2021
While Vermont and Wyoming have smaller populations, D.C. Tiny Vermont, at more than 9,600 square miles, is more than140 times larger than D.C. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Indeed, D.C. is only the 20th largest U.S. and has 39 cities and towns.
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