Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I
- November 15, 2021
Judges have no special expertise in identifying or balancing social benefits and social losses. . . Their rules turned out to be flawed. One of their flaws is that they pushed down the standards for public discourse.
READ MOREIn fact . . . the claim that slaveholders adopted the Constitution is substantially false.
READ MOREFor many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
READ MORE. . . [A]ctivities over which the Constitution granted the federal government little or no jurisdiction [included] social services . . . education, religion, real estate, local businesses, most roads and other infrastructure, nearly all criminal law matters, and most civil court cases.
READ MOREThe framers modeled the Electoral College on indirect election systems then prevailing in Scotland and Maryland, in which elector discretion was pivotal.
READ MOREThis new article presents even more evidence on how the federal government was supposed to be limited.
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