constitutional law Archives - Independence Institute

What the Constitution says about impeachment 0
- October 20, 2019
When weighing whether to impeach a sitting president, we consider how other presidents have acted. It is regrettable but true that many Presidents have routinely played fast and loose with the truth, acted incompetently, and used their office to attack political opponents.
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One reason public discourse is so vile: We’ve forgotten the 1st Amendment’s meaning 0
- October 20, 2019
Judges have no special expertise in identifying or balancing social benefits and social losses. . . Their rules turned out to be flawed. One of their flaws is that they pushed down the standards for public discourse.
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Why recent attacks on the Constitution are wrong 0
- October 10, 2019
In fact . . . the claim that slaveholders adopted the Constitution is substantially false.
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How to reform our dysfunctional federal government 0
- September 20, 2019
For many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
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How our Constitution was supposed to work: new evidence comes to light 0
- September 8, 2019
. . . [A]ctivities over which the Constitution granted the federal government little or no jurisdiction [included] social services . . . education, religion, real estate, local businesses, most roads and other infrastructure, nearly all criminal law matters, and most civil court cases.
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Independence Institute helps win court ruling protecting presidential electors 0
- August 26, 2019
The framers modeled the Electoral College on indirect election systems then prevailing in Scotland and Maryland, in which elector discretion was pivotal.
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