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Defending the Constitution: Secrets behind those ‘obscure’ provisions 0
- July 13, 2021
Here are questions and answers addressing five of the Constitution’s less famous provisions.
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Defending the Constitution: The founders’ words were not ‘meaningless’ or ‘vague’0
- June 4, 2021
The charge that the Constitution is “vague” is based on ignorance.
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Defending the Constitution: limits on federal authority 0
- May 22, 2021
A final reason for decentralization is much less widely understood: Political decentralization promotes human progress.
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Defending the Constitution: The 2nd Amendment is not outdated 0
- May 11, 2021
Obviously she was never taught the difference between ordinary legislation (such as traffic laws) and a general constitutional standard.
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Why the District of Columbia should not be a state 0
- May 2, 2021
In presidential contests D.C. voters do not seriously weigh the merits or demerits of presidential candidates. The District is a dependency of the federal government, and its electorate invariably votes for the party that offers more government
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Defending the Constitution from the ‘living constitutionalists’0
- April 23, 2021
“In practice, “living constitutionalism” converts our Constitution into a parchment loin cloth to cover political pudenda.”
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