Justice Ginsburg’s possible incapacity and the case for term limits
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- February 11, 2019
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Defending the Founders’ Interpretation of the Constitution0
- CONSTITUTION
- March 4, 2025
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.
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Direct Taxes and the Founders’ Originalism0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- August 29, 2024
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.
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Wealth Taxes and the Direct-Indirect Tax Controversy0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- July 12, 2024
A law imposing a federal wealth tax would be unconstitutional unless the projected revenue was apportioned among the states by population.
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Clearing Up the Confusion About the Constitution’s Term “Direct Taxes”0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- July 12, 2024
Misunderstanding the Constitution’s term “direct tax” led the Supreme Court to erroneously uphold Obamacare. Next, it might lead to a new federal wealth tax.
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The Great John Marshall, Part 40
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 7, 2024
Marshall was not part of the “living constitution” project. He sought to interpret the Constitution according to “the intention of its makers.”
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Alexander Hamilton, Richard Hooker, and the Necessary and Proper Clause0
- CONSTITUTION
- April 10, 2024
Alexander Hamilton may have borrowed part of his Necessary and Proper Clause analysis from a famous English theologian.
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Direct Taxes and the Founders’ Originalism
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