Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton, Richard Hooker, and the Necessary and Proper Clause 0
- April 10, 2024
Alexander Hamilton may have borrowed part of his Necessary and Proper Clause analysis from a famous English theologian.
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The Founders and the Constitution, Part 8: Alexander Hamilton 0
- May 14, 2023
Hamilton helped get the Constitution adopted, but wanted a much stronger central government.
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Understanding the Constitution: How the document was composed 0
- August 26, 2021
In drafting the U.S. Constitution, the framers composed a document unique for its balance and beauty.
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A Response to Professor Seidman 0
- January 4, 2013
Should we acknowledge that the U.S. Constitution is filled with “archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions,” and “extricat[e] ourselves from constitutional bondage” by cashiering the document? “As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” argues Louis Michael Seidman, tasked with
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More Constitutional Baby Babble—this time at Vanity Fair 0
- December 4, 2011
Vanity Fair’s sophisticated approach to rescuing a drowning man is this: Lecture him about how we all need plenty of water. The tony mag’s new attack on the Tea Party is entitled “Debt and Dumb.” But the attack shows the authors and editors at VF to be the ones either deaf or dumb: Either deaf
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