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A defense of the Electoral College 0
- April 5, 2020
“… when Hamilton stated . . . that he believed electors would use “information and discernment,” that is not very good evidence that future electors did in fact use information and discernment. But it is quite good evidence that Hamilton and his readers believed the Constitution empowered electors to do so.”
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City destroys home without paying: Will the Supreme Court take the case?0
- March 26, 2020
The Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . . . reads in part, “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
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Underselling Originalism 0
- March 16, 2020
Originalism is not a modern invention “[T]he ‘intent of the makers’ had been the lodestar of documentary construction since at least the 1500s.”
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Global warming and the Constitution’s amendment process: How to tell whether a ‘consensus’ Is true 0
- March 11, 2020
How academics formed a completely erroneous “consensus” about the convention procedure of Article V.
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Two new briefs in the Supreme Court’s Electoral College case 0
- March 6, 2020
[The integrity of presidential electors] has taken on great urgency as “progressive” state legislatures increasingly meddle with free elections.
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New article: 18th century law shows impeachment requires a crime 0
- March 6, 2020
Examples of high misdemeanors . . . were bribery, assault, and attempted murder.
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