 | Mari Florence, Ed Fortson - Business & Economics - 2001 - 342 pages
...article I, section 20 of the Oregon Constitution, which commands that, "No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges or...terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." The court held that homosexual couples are a "true" class within the meaning of the privileges and... | |
 | Yuval Merin - Social Science - 2010 - 397 pages
...Constitution, the Equal Privileges and Immunities Clause, which provides that "no law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or...terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens," and concluded that homosexuals are to be regarded as a suspect class under the Oregon Constitution... | |
 | Robert French Utter, Hugh D. Spitzer - Law - 2002 - 287 pages
...granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens, or corporations. Borrowing from the 1857 Oregon and 1851 Indiana Constitutions as well as from the... | |
 | Brian W. Firth - Political Science - 2003 - 348 pages
...granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations. We do not want the Congress to imagine that it can charter corporations, so we cannot... | |
 | Michael Mello - Family & Relationships - 2008 - 352 pages
...jurisprudence. Article I, Section 20 of the Oregon Constitution, adopted in 1859, provides that no law shall "grant [. . .] to any citizen or class of citizens...terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." This provision is similar in purpose and effect to our Common Benefits Clause. See D. Schuman, The... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr, Robert F. Williams - Political Science - 2012 - 380 pages
...Constitution, which was patterned after Indiana's 1851 constitution provides: "No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges or...terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." These provisions commonly are found in state bills of rights — not in the legislative articles. They... | |
 | Daniel R. Pinello - Political Science - 2006 - 213 pages
...interpretation of Article i, Section 20, of the Oregon Constitution. ["No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or...terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens."] Based on all of that, the Oregon Family Council and a number of key pastors were trying to decide in... | |
 | George E. Connor, Christopher W. Hammons - Law - 2008 - 816 pages
...be passed granting to any citizen, class of citizens or corporations . . . privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens, or corporations."21 Article I, Section 28, barred hereditary privileges or powers.22 Article XII, Section... | |
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