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Listen! Constitution Posts in Audio Format, read by Rob Natelson 0
- February 21, 2024
Just click on the title you want to hear!
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Notice to Readers from Rob Natelson 0
- February 10, 2022
Salon.com issued a defamatory article it has refused to correct.
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The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning in Colorado 0
- July 17, 2013
Online tools combined with face-to-face instruction create what is known as blended learning. Effective integration of technology can allow more efficient use of instructional time and save schools money. Colorado is well positioned to implement and test blended learning programs on a larger scale. Charter and district public schools have begun to implement blended learning models and have seen promising results.
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Insights into the Constitution from English Social History 0
- October 7, 2024
Eighteenth Century social history helps us understand why the Constitution was written as it was.
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How the New York Bill of Rights Helped Lead to the U.S. Bill of Rights 0
- October 3, 2024
John Lansing, Jr. used the New York Bill of Rights as one basis for the proposed constitutional amendments consulted by James Madison.
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Major Problems in Montana’s CI-128 (the Abortion Initiative)0
- September 26, 2024
CI-128, if enacted, could be used as a legal wedge for child mutilation and the invasion of women’s sports by biological males.
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Review of Colorado’s Property Taxes and Model Policy 0
- September 4, 2024
Over the last few years, Colorado’s property tax system has been the subject of considerable debate and efforts toward reform. Rapidly rising residential property values and a structure that gave relief to residential owners, but not commercial property owners, pushed the issue to the fore of the state’s fiscal discussion.
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Another Special Session on Property Taxes: What Changed?0
- September 3, 2024
By Nash Herman In a frenzy to counter proposed Initiatives 50 and 108, Colorado legislators successfully passed new property tax legislation during the August special session. HB24B-1001, the “deal bill,” was created to convince the creators of 50 and 108 to remove the two initiatives from the November ballot. Unsatisfied with the property tax bill
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Direct Taxes and the Founders’ Originalism 0
- August 29, 2024
If the Framers had believed the Constitution would be construed by any rules other than those then prevailing, they would have worded it very differently.
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