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line item veto............................................................................................................................................................................... 108

Line Item Veto............................................................................................................................................................................... 65

Lochner..................................................................................................................................................... 124, 142, 145, 147, 200

lottery..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10, 182

Lottery Case.............................................................................................................................................................................. 9, 11

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Market Participant Exception..................................................................................................................................................... 31

migratory birds............................................................................................................................................................................... 39

milk......................................................................................................................................................................................... 29, 142

minimal scrutiny review............................................................................................................................................................. 206

Minimal Scrutiny Test................................................................................................................................................................ 120

Minimum wage.............................................................................................................................................................................. 16

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NAFTA.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 106

National Labor Relations Act..................................................................................................................................................... 14

natural justice.............................................................................................................................................................................. 133

Necessary and proper................................................................................................................................................................. 2, 3

Necessary and proper” clause....................................................................................................................................................... 2

New Deal............................................................... 11, 12, 19, 20, 23, 25, 35, 41, 58, 95, 97, 101, 134, 135, 144 - 147, 149

NJ landfills...................................................................................................................................................................................... 28

Non delegation...................................................................................................................................................................... 95, 193

nondelegation doctrine.................................................................................................................................. 83, 89, 96 - 99, 108

Nondelegation doctrine......................................................................................................................................................... 96, 98

Nondelegation Doctrine............................................................................................................................................................... 95

non-justiciable......................................................................................................................................................... 67, 68, 69, 103

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Officer of U.S................................................................................................................................................................................. 88

Ollie’s Barbecue...................................................................................................................................................................... 18, 19

Originalist...................................................................................................................................................................................... 132

Originalist/Historical Argument................................................................................................................................................ 132

OSHA.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 97

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personal service contract........................................................................................................................................................... 141

PIC................................................................................................................................................................. 47, 48, 127, 128, 137

Planned Parenthood........................................................................................................................................ 147, 149, 151, 153

Political Constraints on SC.......................................................................................................................................................... 59

Political Question........................................................................................................................................................................ 195

Political Question Doctrine.......................................................................................................................................................... 67

Preemption..................................................................................................................................................................................... 46

Presidential Immunity................................................................................................................................................................ 192

Privileges and Immunities................................................................................................................................................... 47, 127

prudential argument............................................................................................................................................................... 57, 58

Prudential Modality............................................................................................................................................................... 31, 62

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Quasi-suspect standard.............................................................................................................................................................. 120

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Race Discrimination................................................................................................................................................................... 201

Rational Basis review................................................................................................................................................................. 205

Rational Basis Review............................................................................................................................................................... 205

Reconstruction Amendments............................................................................................................................................... 41, 42

reserve powers.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

RFRA................................................................................................................................................................................. 43, 44, 45

Right of Privacy.......................................................................................................................................................................... 145

Ripeness................................................................................................................................................................................. 70, 202

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separation of powers............ 1, 3, 36, 52, 53, 64, 67, 74 - 76, 79, 80, 83, 86, 89, 91 - 95, 99, 100, 109 - 113, 191 - 195

Shared powers................................................................................................................................................................................ 46

Slaughter-House Cases.............................................................................................................................................................. 127

Slavery............................................................................................................................................................................. 8, 114, 163

sodomy...................................................................................................................................................................... 161, 164 - 167

Sovereignty....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Sovereignty argument.................................................................................................................................................................. 57

Spatial privacy............................................................................................................................................................................ 166

special prosecutor.............................................................................................................................................................. 109, 110

Special prosecutor....................................................................................................................................................................... 109

Spending Power............................................................................................................................................................................. 25

Standard of Review.................................................................................................................................................................... 152

Standing.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 61

STANDING.................................................................................................................................................................................. 197

Stare decisis.................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

Stare Decisis........................................................................................................................................................................ 155, 160

State powers, conditional on federal permission..................................................................................................................... 46

Sterilization.................................................................................................................................................................................. 200

Strict Scrutiny Test...................................................................................................................................................................... 120

Structural Modality....................................................................................................................................................................... 30

Substantive Due Process................................................................................................................................. 135, 144, 145, 200

suicide........................................................................................................................................................................ 161, 167 - 171

Supremacy Clause............................................................................................................................................. 46, 180, 188, 197

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tax breaks....................................................................................................................................................................................... 63

Taxing Power................................................................................................................................................................................. 40

Taxpayer Standing....................................................................................................................................................................... 63

Textual Modality.......................................................................................................................................................................... 29

Treaty and War Powers................................................................................................................................................................ 39

Truman.............................................................................................................................................................................. 71, 78, 96

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U.S. Sentencing Commission.................................................................................................................................................... 111

Unfunded Mandates.................................................................................................................................................................. 108

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Validity of 13^th and 14^th Amendments...................................................................................................................................... 41

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War Powers....................................................................................................................................................... 100, 104, 105, 112

Watergate........................................................................................................................................................ 74, 76, 77, 104, 109

The Sign of Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

Chapter 1

THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject; but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.

Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.

“Which is it to-day,” I asked, “morphine or cocaine?”

He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.

“It is cocaine,” he said, “a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?”

“No, indeed,” I answered brusquely. “My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra strain upon it.”

He smiled at my vehemence. “Perhaps you are right, Watson,” he said. “I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment.”

“But consider!” I said earnestly. “Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process which involves increased tissue-change and may at least leave a permanent weakness. You know, too, what a black reaction comes upon you. Surely the game is hardly worth the candle. Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? Remember that I speak not only as one comrade to another but as a medical man to one for whose constitution he is to some extent answerable.”

He did not seem offended. On the contrary, he put his fingertips together, and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, like one who has a relish for conversation.

“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”

“The only unofficial detective?” I said, raising my eyebrows.

“The only unofficial consulting detective,” he answered. “I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection. When Gregson, or Lestrade, or Athelney Jones are out of their depths — which, by the way, is their normal state — the matter is laid before me. I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a field for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward. But you have yourself had some experience of my methods of work in the Jefferson Hope case.”

“Yes, indeed,” said I cordially. “I was never so struck by anything in my life. I even embodied it in a small brochure, with the somewhat fantastic title of 'A Study in Scarlet.' “

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