Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor?: Or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?

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Note to the Introduction 1. Se e Jonatha n Kozol , Rache l an d He r Children : Homeles s Families in America 17 5 (1988). Notes to Chapter 1 1. 35 0 R2d 445 (D.C. Cir. 1965) (involving credit terms and a security arrangement between th e creditor an d a debtor with seve n children subsisting on a government check). 2. Se e Thomas Paine , Rights o f Ma n 234-3 5 (Phili p S . Foner ed. , 1974). 179 n o t e s 180 • Note s t o Chapte r I 3. Cas s R. Sunstein, The Partial Constitution 15 5 (1993). 4. Pete r Warr , Pau l Jackson , an d Michae l Banks , Unemploymen t and Mental Health: Some British Studies, 44 J. Social Issues 47, 61 (1988). 5. See , e.g. , R . Georg e Wright , Reaso n an d Obligatio n chs . 1- 4 (1994). 6. Se e Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II, question 66y article 7. See also id. at reply to objection 2. Of course, issues of nonviolence , public or private reimbursement, or penance may also play a role in Aquinas's scheme. See id. at question 66. Notes to Chapter 2 1. Susa n Wolf, Freedom Within Reason 140-4 1 (1990). 2. Id . at 144. 3. Id . at 117. 4. Gar y Watson , Fre e Actio n an d Fre e Will , 9 6 Min d 145 , 15 2 (1987). 5. Fo r furthe r enlightenment , th e reade r i s directe d t o Ale x Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America 239 (1991). 6. Thi s descriptio n an d othe r fact s ar e take n fro m Singleto n v . State, 465 So . 2d 432 , 434-35 (Ala . Crim. App. 1983) . See als o Singleton v . State , 54 8 So . 2 d 16 7 (Ala . 1989) ; Singleto n v . Thigpen, 488 U.S. 1019 (1989). 7. Se e People v. Harris, 28 Cal. 3d 935,944-45,623 P.2d 240,244,171 Cal. Rptr. 679,683 (1981). The later procedural history of this case is, incidentally, the stuff of legends and law review articles. 8. Arthu r Cona n Doyle , The Fina l Problem , in Sherloc k Holmes : The Complete Novels and Stories Vol. 1 642, 645 (1892; Bantam ed., 1986). Notes t o Chapte r 2 * 18 1 9. Unite d States v. Manzella, 791 E2d 1263 , 1269 (7th Cir. 1986). 10. Unite d State s v . Carter , 43 6 E2 d 200 , 21 0 (D.C . Cir . 1970 ) (Bazelon, C. J., concurring). 11. Edding s v. State, 616 P.2d 1159 , 1170 (Okla . Crim. App. 1980), revd, 455 U.S. 104(1982). 12. Gale n Strawson, Freedom and Belief 219 n. 22 (1986). Notes to Chapter 3 1. Kathry n M . Grossman , Hugo' s Romanti c Sublime : Beyon d Chaos and the Conventions in Les Miserables, 60 Philological Q. 471,474(1981). 2. Danie l H . Lowenstein , Th e Failur e o f th e Act : Conception s o f Law in The Merchant of Venice, Bleak House, Les Miserables, and Richard Weisberg' s Poethics , 1 5 Cardoz o L . Rev . 1139 , 122 2 (1994). 3. Se e the opinio n o f Tatting, J., in Lo n L . Fuller, The Cas e of th e Speluncean Explorers, 62 Harv. L. Rev. 616, 629-30 (1949). 4. Victo r Hugo , Le s Miserable s 83 , trans . Le e Fahnestoc k an d Norman MacAfe e (1862 ; Signet ed., 1987). 5. Se e Francis S. Heck, The Loaf of Bread in Les Miserables and i n Zola's Travail, 24 Romance Notes 254 (1984). For the incident of Nanet's brea d thef t itself , se e Emil e Zola , Wor k 25-28 , trans . Ernest A. Vizetelly (1925). 6. Se e Charles Dickens, The Adventures o f Oliver Twist 1 3 (1838; Oxford Univ . Press ed., 1987). 7. Stat e v. Moe, 174 Wash. 303, 24 P.2d 638 (1933). 8. 24P.2dat640 . 9. Id . 10. See , e.g., Michael M. Burns, Responding to Beggars, 1991 Wis. L. 182 * Note s t o Chapte r 3 Rev. 1101, 1103; Nancy A. Millich, Compassion Fatigu e and th e First Amendment: Are the Homeless Constitutional Castaways?, 27 U. Cal. Davis L. Rev. 255, 265 (1994). 11. Fo r...