Edward Coke

The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 21: Coke, Blackstone, and English law 0
- March 13, 2023
The framers wrote the Constitution with Anglo-American jurisprudence in mind.
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The greatest constitutional document of all 0
- December 15, 2014
This article was first published in The American Thinker. It is said that no second heir to the British throne has been named John because of the reputation of the first. King John (reigned: 1199-1216) could be charming and efficient, but he was ruthless and utterly untrustworthy, and several times he drove his subjects to
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And You “Can’t” Defund Obamacare . . . Why?0
- August 25, 2013
Freedom and popular government in Britain and America became possible because over the course of many years the House of Commons, and later the American colonial legislatures, were willing to exert the power of the purse to discipline an overreaching executive. In Britain, the House of Commons—Parliament’s lower chamber—sometimes defunded the executive in order to
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