What Does the Constitution Say About Federal Land Ownership?
- February 6, 2016
[T]he “progressives” have lost the argument over constitutional meaning. And that is why they have pivoted to assail the document itself.
READ MOREStatistics from the Supreme Court’s last term belie the claim that it has become conservative.
READ MOREThe Constitution’s flexibility in emergency is why the late Justice Robert H. Jackson once said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But emergencies do not cause the Constitution to vanish.
READ MORE[S]etting minimum consumption ages is not a power the Constitution grants the federal government. The Constitution reserves it to the states.
READ MOREIn the 20th century, the Supreme Court cited McCulloch to uphold unprecedented federal spending and regulatory programs. Law school constitutional law courses sometimes treat McCulloch the same way. . . . [But] this approach is the product of historical ignorance.
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