The 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.
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Yet another “progressive” argument for an unlimited Commerce Power doesn’t add up0
- October 21, 2011
As I’ve pointed out before in this column, there is a sort of cottage industry among “progressive” law professors that involves taking snatches of the Founding-Era record—or imagined snatches—to argue that the current overgrown federal government is really constitutional after all. In past posts, I’ve reported on a misinterpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause
READ MOREAttacks on the Modern Tea Party Resemble Abuse British Tories Hurled at American Patriots0
- October 16, 2011
“Criminals!” “Frenzy!” Does this sound like the abuse that apologists for Big Government fling at the modern Tea Party? It should. Tea Party activists have been the victims of some incredible verbal smears—especially considering that (unlike leftist demonstrators) they have been almost uniformly peaceful and law-abiding. But modern Tea Partiers can point with pride to
READ MOREObama Jobs Bill Defies Both the Constitution and the Supreme Court0
- October 2, 2011
A section located deep in President Obama’s proposed “American Jobs Act” would suspend part of the U.S. Constitution. The proposed law would violate not only the Constitution’s actual meaning, but even the watered-down version of the Constitution now applied by the U.S. Supreme Court. You might be surprised to learn that the Obama bill seeks
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It’s Here!!! “The Original Constitution: What it Actually Said and Meant” — All New 2nd Edition!0
- September 25, 2011
My book, The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant is—believe it or not—the first book EVER to explain the legal force of the entire U.S. Constitution as it stood in December, 1791, right after adoption of the Bill of Rights. There have been many books surveying parts of the Constitution, or purporting to
READ MOREMisusing the Post Office and Necessary and Proper Clauses to Justify the Federal Monster State0
- September 23, 2011
One way apologists for the modern federal monster state attempt to justify it constitutionally is to argue that the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) is an “elastic clause” conferring vast “implied” power on Congress. Actually, as Constitution’s advocates during the ratification battles made clear, the Necessary and Proper Clause grants
READ MOREThe Fascinating Story of How the States Used the Constitution’s Amendment Procedure to Adopt Reform, 1789-19130
- September 15, 2011
Common sense tells us that an out-of-control Congress is not going to rein in its own power. The American Founders predicted this might become the case, so they provided a way by which the state legislatures could propose and ratify corrective constitutional amendments without Congress being able to stop them. This is the “state-application-and-convention” procedure
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