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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

Good News for White Supremacists from the MSU-Denver Writing Center

Learning to speak standard English traditionally has helped minorities move up the economic and social ladder. The Writing Center decision not to teach standard English helps assure that they stay at the bottom.

Payback Is Great Under Trump, but Conservatives Should Look to the Future

A better alternative than using federal aid programs to dictate to “woke” states is to end those programs entirely, so those states bear the full burden of their faulty policies.

Coloradans Can Expect Far More Complicated Taxes if Progressive Income Tax Passes

Initiative 181 would greatly complicate your tax return.

The “Joined at the Hip” Mainstream Propaganda Media

As often happens, all leading mainstream media outlets adopted the same—false—line on the D.C. National Guard story.

Unpacking the Presidential Appointments Lawsuit

For the Supreme Court to decide in favor of the president, it probably would have to overrule Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935)

Split Decision: Two New TABOR Cases

The Colorado Supreme Court, in a break with its long hostility to TABOR, finally did the right thing.

The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs

The President reads Congress’s delegation of authority correctly, but Congress’s delegation goes beyond that permitted in the Constitution.

Phil Weiser’s troubling taxpayer-funded obsession with Trump

Weiser has used taxpayer-funded lawsuits to go on a jihad against President Trump, and probably to promote his own candidacy for governor.

‘Progressive’ income tax scheme threatens Colorado

Progressive income taxes don’t hurt the rich. They are penalties on upward mobility and hope that hurt everyone but the rich.

President Trump, the Constitution, and the National Guard Cases

Analyzing the law behind recent cases challenging the President’s authority to federalize the National Guard.

Surrounded by Leftist Propaganda: Proving Media Bias Over Time

During the 2021-2025 timespan, American newspaper writers used the political insult “right wing extremist” seventeen times more often than “left-wing extremist.”

Ancient Rome and the Constitution

You cannot fully understand the Constitution without knowing how the Founders were affected by the saga of ancient Rome.

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