The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of eight subcommittees within the
Senate Judiciary Committee
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 22 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), consider executive and judicial nominations ...
. The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of
Sam Ervin
Samuel James Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896April 23, 1985) was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often ...
, whose investigations and lobbying — together with
Frank Church and the
Church Commission
The Church Committee (formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) was a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence ...
— led to the passage of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Jurisdiction
From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:
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Amendments to the United States Constitution
Thirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of these, having bee ...
*(2) Civil rights oversight
*(3)
Property rights
The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership) is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions. A general recognition of a right to private property is found more rarely and is typically h ...
*(4)
Federal-state relations
*(5)
Individual rights
Group rights, also known as collective rights, are rights held by a group '' qua'' a group rather than individually by its members; in contrast, individual rights are rights held by individual people; even if they are group-differentiated, which ...
*(6) Commemorative Congressional Resolutions
*(7)
Interstate compact
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s
Members, 117th Congress
Historical subcommittee rosters
116th Congress
See also
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United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution
External links
Senate Judiciary Committee website, Subcommittee pageGovtrack.us site on subcommittee
Judiciary Senate Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
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