All Publications by Benjamin Keane
  • Legal Memorandum posted April 13, 2011 by Brian Walsh, Benjamin Keane Overcriminalization and the Constitution

    Abstract: Although the Constitution’s great structural principles of federalism and separation of powers are designed to guard against the abuse of governmental power and secure individual liberty, Congress routinely flouts these constitutional safeguards by enacting vague, overly broad, and other improper and unconstitutional criminal…