Supreme Court Just Helped out the Real Colorado
- July 19, 2024
These witnesses and their congressional sponsors apparently believe the consensus of professionals should control foreign policy. . . . But the Constitution squarely repudiates this “foreign policy by committee” approach.
READ MORENothing in the Constitution gives [the Speaker of the House a presidential-style veto.
READ MORE[A] whole generation of law students has been trained to think that the 19th century courts were heartless tools of malicious capitalists, and that enlightened reform came only with the virtuous 20th century “progressives.”
READ MOREOriginalism has been the prevailing method of documentary interpretation in English and American law for at least five centuries.
READ MORENorth Carolinians repeatedly—both in official and unofficial documents—referred to an Article V convention as a “convention of the states.”
READ MOREIn the 20th century, the Supreme Court cited McCulloch to uphold unprecedented federal spending and regulatory programs. Law school constitutional law courses sometimes treat McCulloch the same way. . . . [But] this approach is the product of historical ignorance.
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