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Author: Rob Natelson

Rob Natelson is the Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and heads the Institute’s Article V Information Center. He was a law professor for 25 years, serving at three different universities. Among other subjects, he taught Constitutional Law, Constitutional History, Advanced Constitutional Law, and First Amendment. He is also the Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Montana Policy Institute. Rob is especially known for his studies of the Constitution’s original meaning. His research has carried him to libraries throughout the United States and in Britain, including four months at Oxford. The results have included several break-though discoveries. Click here for more information about Rob

The “Armed Persons” Snafu in the Montana Constitution

This provision of the Montana Constitution, like many others, is simply unclear.

Justice Gorsuch’s Take on the Major Questions Doctrine

The Major Questions Doctrine is in the Constitution because it simply is the logical obverse of the Doctrine of Incidental Authority, which pervades the Constitution.

Does the Constitution require a declaration of war for President Trump to maintain his Iran offensive?

When the Constitution was adopted, international law required declarations only for offensive, not defensive, conflicts.

Taxpayer-Supported Discrimination and Propaganda at MSU Denver

MSU Denver documents show that the bizarre and the extremist positions of its Writing Center prevail throughout the institution.

Constitutions of Liberty – Colorado, Montana & Other Western States

Much of the original Colorado and Montana constitutions read like a libertarian wish list.

The Tariff Case—A Lost Opportunity (exclusive analysis for II)

Learning Resources v. Trump was a lost opportunity to begin the process of nudging Congress back into its constitutional cage.

Justice Thomas gives Rob his 41st SCOTUS citation–one of the nation’s highest tallies

Supreme Court justices have relied on Rob’s research 41 times since 2013, one of the highest numbers of any legal scholar.

The 1876 Colorado Constitution’s extensive bill of rights

The 1876 Colorado Constitution protected economic and civil rights not found in the U.S. Constitution.

Lefty Claims that by Curbing Government Waste, Musk Violated the ‘Contitution’

The truth is that under a fair reading of the Constitution, most of the projects DOGE found were themselves unconstitutional.

Tax, spending and debt limits in Colorado’s 1876 constitution

Politicians who whine about the restrictions in TABOR should read the original Colorado Constitution to learn how real tax limitation works.

The case for defunding public radio

CPR’s ad was dishonest. And dishonest advertising usually is a sign of a bad product.

Overturning the Twentieth Century?

Elite opinion aside, the Supreme Court has not aggressively attacked the bad precedents of the past century. Maybe it should.

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