Supreme Court Just Helped out the Real Colorado
- July 19, 2024
What does the Postal Power tell us about congressional delegation to administrative agencies?
READ MOREThe Constitution says that “on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.” However, there has been relatively little credible research into what “the Application of . . . two thirds” means. Most scholars who have investigated the issue agree that applications must
READ MORE. . . if you want to apply the Founders’ own rules of interpretation to the Constitution, the understanding of the ratifiers is most important.
READ MOREAn extra-constitutional action may be legal or illegal.
READ MORESo what was the understanding in 1787-90? I have pieced this together over many years. In a nutshell, here it is:
READ MOREOpponents then — like their successors today — claimed they were protecting the Constitution. But what they actually were (and are) doing is protecting judges and politicians who abuse their positions by changing constitutional rules without following the normal democratic process.
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