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.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 9, 2025
, 85 Southern California Law Review 1451, 1485-1487 (2012). But when it comes to the Seventh Amendment, 36 out of 37 State Constitutions in 1868, guaranteed the right to jury trials in all civil or common law cases. The civil jury has a long and distinguished history in Anglo-American law. 73,77 (1789).
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.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 29, 2023
So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.
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.
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