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Signing_of_Constitution_Chandler_Christy_smThe Constitutional Studies Center combines careful, objective scholarship into the original understanding of the Constitution with advocacy for human freedom under law. It produces books, issue papers, articles, and legal briefs reporting the results of its research. Since 2010, the Center has had enormous influence on constitutional law cases and commentary, but also on policy makers and grass roots activists. For example, the Center’s research findings galvanized the massive and growing “Article V” movement to restore constitutional limits on the federal government.

Latest Posts

  • Protecting People Against "Gun Control"0

    • March 27, 2013

    My recent address in Grand Junction on the Colorado gun control laws has received widespread notice. This is particularly so of the part pointing out that the same arguments used by the legislative majority for gun control could be used to restrict other constitutional rights, such as free speech and sexual choice. I’ve reproduced the

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  • The Modern University: Giving Honors to the Dishonorable0

    • March 24, 2013

    If you want an illustration of what is wrong with higher education today, a good one is what I had to sit through when my daughter Deborah graduated a few months ago. Deborah is a native Montanan, born when my wife and I lived in Missoula. She recently received her masters degree from the University

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  • Freedom, Not Government, Made America Great0

    • March 14, 2013

    When a columnist in the Lakewood Hub edition of the Denver Post advanced the ridiculous thesis that 19th century American progress was largely due to government programs, I just had to respond. The truth, of course, is that 19th century America was generally a time of minimal government and almost unimaginable (to us) economic freedom.

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  • Get Rob's authoritative book on the Constitution's REAL meaning0

    • March 10, 2013

    The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant (2nd ed.) is an objective explanation of the Constitution as understood immediately after adoption of the Bill of Rights. The Original Constitution is written for the layperson. It draws on legal and historical sources alike, including many long-overlooked by other writers. Get it here or here.

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  • Think your state courts are bad? Check this out.0

    • March 8, 2013

    Conservatives in Colorado and other states often complain about the liberalism of their states’ courts. They should be glad they don’t live in Montana. Montana’s public image is one of rugged individualism, and in a few spheres of life (such as guns), image reflects reality. But in fiscal and regulatory affairs, Montana has a long

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  • Independence Institute Moves to Protect TABOR in U.S. Court of Appeals0

    • March 5, 2013

    The Independence Institute is once again defending the Colorado Taxpayers Bill of Rights against attack. II has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals, shooting holes in the plaintiffs’ claim that allowing the people to check the state legislature’s financial powers is somehow “unrepublican.” The national think

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Rob Natelson, Senior Fellow, Constitutional Jurisprudence
Email: rob.natelson1@gmail.com
Phone: 303-279-6536, ext 114

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