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Time to end the “emoluments” lawsuits against Trump 0
- April 1, 2019
Arms-length market transactions simply are not “emoluments” as the Constitution uses the word.
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More news on the Constitution’s ratification: the meaning of “militia” in the Second Amendment 0
- March 28, 2019
This is the second article examining contributions to our understanding of the Constitution from the three brand new volumes of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States. My first article observed that probably the greatest contribution of these three new volumes is reproduction, in indexed and easy-to-use hard copy
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News on the Constitution’s ratification: More evidence the feds are exceeding their powers 0
- March 27, 2019
The Constitution created a strictly limited central government, which . . . would have no authority over religion, most criminal offenses, civil justice, social services, education, or most aspects of transportation or the economy.
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Pelosi wants to lower the voting age to 16; it should be raised to 25 0
- March 25, 2019
Science has discovered that the brain does not fully mature until age 25 . . . The record of governance in most countries that allow 16 year olds to vote—Brazil, Nicaragua, Argentina, etc.—has been truly wretched.
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How a court imposed a state constitution the voters probably didn’t ratify 0
- March 18, 2019
In 1972, the Montana Supreme Court decided one of the most important state constitutional cases in modern American history. By a 3-2 margin, the court ruled that the voters had ratified a new state constitution even though the number of “yes” votes fell below the majority required. The decision was particularly important because the new
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What would America look like with an originalist Supreme Court?0
- March 18, 2019
Originalism is the prevailing method of interpreting almost all legal documents. An originalist is simply a person who believes we should use the same principles to interpret the Constitution
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