The Founders and the Constitution, Part 8: Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton helped get the Constitution adopted, but wanted a much stronger central government.
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 7: John Rutledge
An astonishing number of Rutledge’s ideas ended up in the final Constitution.
New Video! Caldara interviews Natelson on the Founders and the Constitution
This video tells some of the Constitution’s “back story.”
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 6: James Wilson
Despite the clear wording of the 10th Amendment, apologists for federal power still use Wilson’s “inherent sovereign authority” theory.
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 5: Edmund Randolph
If not for Edmund Randolph, America’s most populous and most influential state would have rejected the Constitution. George Washington would have been ineligible for the presidency. The Union would have been smothered in its cradle.
Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
The Virginia legislature, not Congress, called the Constitutional Convention.
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 4: John Dickinson
Without John Dickinson we might not have a Constitution.
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 3: James Madison
Madison was the most important single individual in the Constitution’s formation.
The end of representative government?
None of the four “progressive” mega-donors had any personal connections to most of the legislative districts they targeted. They didn’t live there, didn’t own property there, and in most cases probably had never seen the district.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 21: Coke, Blackstone, and English law
The framers wrote the Constitution with Anglo-American jurisprudence in mind.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 20: Vattel and the Law of Nations
During the 17th and 18th centuries, five great scholars forged international law into its modern shape. The American Founders relied on their work.
New Video on the Limits of Congress’s Commerce Clause Power
Congress’ effort to regulate Indian child placement is unconstitutional.
