Most People Treat the Constitution Like it’s Only a Suggestion
By: Mike Maharrey The Constitution is really just a series of suggestions. At least that’s how most American treat it. The concept of a “Living Breathing Constitution” is the biggest ...
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Founding Principles: Only Congress Can Make Law
By: Jim Lewis The very first sentence in the Constitution after the Preamble unambiguously tells us only Congress has the power to make laws. Not the president. Not the courts. ...
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The Electoral College is still right for America
By: Rob Natelson Criticisms of the Electoral College are regularly repeated in Democratic-controlled state legislatures. Those criticisms derive largely from ignorance as to why the Founders adopted the system they did. ...
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Lesson from the Government Shutdown
By: Mike Maharrey We are now more than a month into the government shutdown. Don’t worry. I’m doing fine. In fact, I’m living life pretty much just like I did ...
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Attorney General Nominee Barr Admits Nullification Works
By: Mike Maharrey Thirty-three states have effectively nullified federal marijuana laws. U.S. Attorney General nominee William Barr said so during his confirmation hearing when he called the current system “back door ...
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The Inalienable Right To Life
by KrisAnne Hall, JD It seems to be growing increasingly popular to use the 10th Amendment to justify carte blanche legislative authority within the States. Even some Presidential candidates have ...
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Federal Census- Overly Intrusive, Absolutely Unconstitutional
by KrisAnne Hall, JD There have been many questions about the legitimacy of the extremely intrusive questions on the current and most recent government census. I have recently been instructed ...
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Parchment Barriers and the Determinateness of Constitutional Text
by Mike Rappaport Recently, Jonathan Gienapp, a Stanford historian, has published what is likely to be a widely read book on constitutional interpretation. Second Creation: Fixing the Constitution’s Meaning in the ...
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Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
by Ron Paul One of the new Democratic House majority’s top priorities is so-called campaign finance reform legislation. Contrary to the claims of its supporters, campaign finance reform legislation does ...
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Jefferson vs Hamilton on Necessary and Proper
The necessary and proper clause was never intended to expand federal power. At all. The way most people treat the Constitution’s necessary and proper clause today, we could just as ...
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