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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

In defense of the court decision striking down Obamacare

The truth is that the quiet death of the ACA would surely be less disruptive than its chaotic life.

Still more proof: the Supreme Court is not “conservative”

Yet, true to form, some media outlets continue to claim the court has a “conservative majority.”

Problems with Excessive Federal Land Ownership

The fact is that real estate socialism doesn’t work any better than most other kinds of socialism.

First-Ever Legal Treatise On the Constitution’s Amendment Process!

The new book collects over two hundred years of history, amendment practice, and court decisions.

“Progressives” want federal control of drugs—unless they are harmful

Colorado’s [marijuana “legalization”] is a jerrybuilt legal scheme that, like many other “progressive” programs, looks more like racketeering than true legalization.

It’s time to truly test the constitutionality of Obamacare

Previous Origination Clause plaintiffs lost because they attacked Obamacare’s taxes instead of its regulations. Plaintiffs suing for relief from regulations that harm them may have more success.

Let’s Stop Paying for Intolerant Universities!

Politics aside, massive public university funding makes no sense in today’s world.

The Feds have a constitutional duty to stop the caravan at the border

[T]he caravan is an “invasion” within the meaning of the Constitution’s Guarantee Clause. Moreover, that Clause does not merely empower federal officials to repel an “Invasion.” It commands them to do so.

The Albany Plan of Union: Another Predecessor to the Constitution

Some of the Plan’s features foreshadowed the Articles of Confederation, some foreshadowed the Constitution, and some foreshadowed both.

William Penn’s Charter of Liberties—one of our Constitution’s ancestors

The Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government granted by William Penn to his colony on May 5, 1682 . . . was . . . a true colonial constitution.

First decision of the Supreme Court Term: a unanimous liberal result

The statute is based on an overly-expansive definition of congressional power . . . But no member of the court wrote a concurring opinion to point that out . . .

This Supreme Court term will show that there is no 5-4 “conservative majority”

The more traditional justices differ significantly in their legal methods and often reach liberal results.

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