Supreme Court Just Helped out the Real Colorado
- July 19, 2024
Any states that allowed the federal government to interfere in their sovereign jurisdiction would be guilty of a breach of trust, for the “trustees or servants of the several states” were obliged to protect the authority citizens had placed in them.
READ MOREThe list of constitutional provisions impacted by Dickinson is a very long one.
READ MOREDickinson was one of the few to free his own slaves during his lifetime.
READ MORE“We cannot be happy without being free,” Dickinson wrote in Farmer Letter XII. “We cannot be free without being secure in our own property … We cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may take it away.”
READ MOREThis year marks the 250th anniversary of one of the most influential series of writings in American history.
READ MOREThe Farmer letters went well beyond asserting the case against taxation without representation; they also helped clarify American constitutional thinking on other questions, including: Which government responsibilities should be exercised centrally and which locally?
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