Supreme Court Just Helped out the Real Colorado
- July 19, 2024
Most people would recognize the right to travel as an inherent, natural right of free people, and the courts say that it is the Constitution. But is it really there?
READ MORE“Here’s an important, but widely overlooked, feature: The document doesn’t grant power only to federal officials. It also confers power on persons and entities who are not part of the U.S. government at all.”
READ MOREThe Constitution’s flexibility in emergency is why the late Justice Robert H. Jackson once said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But emergencies do not cause the Constitution to vanish.
READ MORE“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
READ MORE“… when Hamilton stated . . . that he believed electors would use “information and discernment,” that is not very good evidence that future electors did in fact use information and discernment. But it is quite good evidence that Hamilton and his readers believed the Constitution empowered electors to do so.”
READ MOREThe Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . . . reads in part, “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
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