The Truth About the Federalist Papers: Conclusions
By: Shawn Brodof The Federalist Papers were written and published in New York newspapers in 1787-1788 in order to sway public opinion to approve and ratify the newly devised United ...
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The Constitution, the Census and Citizenship
by Judge Andrew Napolitano Late last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a challenge to a question that the Commerce Department announced it would add to the 2020 census. The ...
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Obamacare Back in Court: What’s Happening and What Needs to be Done
By: Michael Boldin On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Texas v. United States on whether a federal judge was correct in striking down Obamacare. ...
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Clutching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Gundy and the Prohibition on Delegation
By: Michael Rappaport The prohibition on the delegation of legislative power to the executive is one of the key structural features of the Constitution’s original meaning. The prohibition prevents the ...
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Patrick Henry: “If This Be Treason!”
By: Joe Wolverton II There was a time in our history when one of our finest patriot fathers is said to have waved the saber of “treason” in the face ...
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The Court and the Fed: Our Own Aristocratic Element
by John O. McGinnis The idea of a mixed regime goes back to ancient times. Philosophers contrasted pure regimes, like democracy or oligarchy, with those that combined different classes, such ...
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The Commerce Clause and the Constitution: Not a Power to Do Whatever They Want
By: Michael Boldin The federal government claims that Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution gives it the power to regulate and control everything from healthcare, to what ...
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State Governments and the People’s Liberty
By: Jim Lewis Many people today seem to think it’s the federal government’s job to protect their liberty. But the Founding Fathers didn’t. In fact, they feared the new government ...
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The verdict is in: We do not have a “conservative Supreme Court”
By: Rob Natelson The Supreme Court term just over certainly confirmed what I wrote shortly after it started: The constant refrain that the current bench is a “conservative Supreme Court” with ...
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The Declaration of Independence Birthed 13 Sovereign Nations
By: Mike Maharrey On July 4, people all across these United States of America will shoot off fireworks, grill meat and march in patriotic parades to celebrate the “birth of ...
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