Defending the Founders’ Interpretation of the Constitution
Making up new ways to interpret the Constitution is unfaithful to the document. If the Founders had known people would do that, they would have written it differently.
A Rule for Curbing Wasteful Spending
Even we don’t restore the Constitution’s spending limits, the courts have power to stop waste like “promoting DEI in Serbia.”
The Constitution and the Betrayal by Biden’s People
The Founders predicted what would happen when a group takes over from a disabled President.
May the States Block Illegal Immigration?
This post summarizes what earlier posts at this site have said about the states’ power to curb illegal immigration.
TikTok and the First Amendment
Is spying constitutionally-protected “freedom of speech” or “freedom of the press” because it is conducted by an internet application?
An Amendments Convention is a “Convention of the States”—the Evidence Continues to Pile Up
The Founding-era evidence on this point is both massive and uncontradicted.
The Electoral College in Context
The Electoral College is a necessary part of a wider presidential election system, which in turn is the result of many factors, not just a few.
Busting the Myths About Article V Conventions
During the 1970s, a handful of liberal writers with privileged media access spread disinformation about the amendment process, apparently to protect an activist Supreme Court.
Insights into the Constitution from English Social History
Eighteenth Century social history helps us understand why the Constitution was written as it was.
How the New York Bill of Rights Helped Lead to the U.S. Bill of Rights
John Lansing, Jr. used the New York Bill of Rights as one basis for the proposed constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison.
Direct Taxes and the Founders’ Originalism
If the Framers had believed the Constitution would be construed by any rules other than those then prevailing, they would have worded it very differently.
United States v. Abbott and State War Powers
A federal court of appeals has upheld the right of Texas to defend itself against illegal immigration by erecting a barrier in the Rio Grande River.
