Małżeństwa jednopłciowe i interes publiczny w orzecznictwie amerykańskiej judykatywy
Same-sex Marriages and the Public Interest in the Jurisprudence of US Courts

Summary/Abstract: On 26 June 2013, the Federal Supreme Court of the United States released a judgment in the United States v. Windsor, in which it challenged the constitutionality of the defi nition of marriage under federal law. In reasons for its decision, the Court confi rmed the unfounded exclusion of samesex marriages, concluded under state law, from access to entitlements associated with the institution of marriage. Making its decision the court applied a rational basis review, one of the three standard test in the review of the constitutionality of legislative interference with individual rights in the United States. The author provides a reconstruction of the content of public interest associated with the institution of marriage, and acquaint the Polish reader with the controversies associated with the application of rational basis review by the U.S. judiciary in matters concerning the rights of homosexuals.

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