Justice Ginsburg’s possible incapacity and the case for term limits
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- February 11, 2019
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.
READ MOREIf the Framers had believed the Constitution would be construed by any rules other than those then prevailing, they would have worded it very differently.
READ MOREA law imposing a federal wealth tax would be unconstitutional unless the projected revenue was apportioned among the states by population.
READ MOREMisunderstanding the Constitution’s term “direct tax” led the Supreme Court to erroneously uphold Obamacare. Next, it might lead to a new federal wealth tax.
READ MOREMarshall was not part of the “living constitution” project. He sought to interpret the Constitution according to “the intention of its makers.”
READ MOREAlexander Hamilton may have borrowed part of his Necessary and Proper Clause analysis from a famous English theologian.
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