Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I
- November 15, 2021
[D]uring the 1970s conservatives began to use initiatives to limit government power. . . . Judges seemed to think this was a threat, and judicial attitudes toward ballot measures began to change.
READ MORESome red flag laws ignore traditional safeguards.
READ MOREArms-length market transactions simply are not “emoluments” as the Constitution uses the word.
READ MOREThis passage leaves nothing to inference: Coxe states explicitly that the militia consists of every man from 16 to 60 years of age.
READ MOREThe Constitution created a strictly limited central government, which . . . would have no authority over religion, most criminal offenses, civil justice, social services, education, or most aspects of transportation or the economy.
READ MOREScience has discovered that the brain does not fully mature until age 25 . . . The record of governance in most countries that allow 16 year olds to vote—Brazil, Nicaragua, Argentina, etc.—has been truly wretched.
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