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 unfair procedures in the Trump impeachment

To ensure fairness, the prosecuting House managers must demonstrate decisively (1) that the election was fair, (2) that Trump had no reasonable grounds for believing otherwise, and (3) that he had a corrupt motive for lying.

What you need to know about the lawyers’ arguments on impeachment

Whatever you may think of Trump’s speech, the evidence shows, and the prosecutors implicitly admit, he did not commit a crime. This creates some problems for the prosecution.

Does the Constitution allow impeachment of an ex-President?

You can see how the evidence goes in both directions.

New article relevant to the 2020 election, amendments, & much more!

The Constitution’s “federal functions” are almost totally overlooked in law school courses. Yet they are hugely important.

The solution is a convention of the states: 5th of a five part series

By using the Constitution’s convention procedure, we can enact the reforms necessary to save the country—and we can make them permanent.

How state legislatures can break the power of corrupt big-city politics in presidential elections -4th in a series

District voting for presidential electors in [key swing] states would . . . isolate corruption to particular electoral districts;

Saving America and election integrity: 3rd in a series

2020 election irregularities: “For the survival of the republic, we cannot sweep such evidence under the rug.”

Saving America and election Integrity: 2nd in a series

Now, if these characters don’t understand even the fundamentals of their jobs, how can we expect them to know enough to govern health care? Or education? Or the environment? Or defense, commerce, or any of the other activities they purport to regulate?