The Great Compromise and the Struggle to Preserve State Sovereignty
By: Joe Wolverton, II The first weeks of July, 1787 were full of fiery speeches, threats of disunion, and tenuous compromises. In other words, just an ordinary time at the ...
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American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion
By: John Whitehead Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come ...
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Tench Coxe: States and People as Checks on Federal Power
By: Mike Maharrey In his fourth essay of “An American Citizen,” Tench Coxe countered Anti-Federalist fears of federal tyranny by arguing that the Constitution’s structure kept the people and ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part 7
By Rob Natelson Commentary This is the last installment in a series on the nadir, or low point, of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the period from 1937 to 1944, ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution – Part 6
By Rob Natelson Commentary The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth installments in this series traced how the Supreme Court responded to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to break ...
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Tench Coxe Defends the Structure of the House of Representatives
By: Mike Maharrey Countering Anti-Federalist fears that Congress wouldn’t represent the diverse interests of the American population, Tench Coxe came out swinging, insisting that the House would be “the immediate ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution – Part 5
by By Rob Natelson Commentary The first, second, third, and fourth installments of this series described how the Constitution established a relatively small federal government with limited powers and how ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution – Part 4
By Rob Natelson Commentary The first, second, and third installments in this series explained that the Constitution created a small and frugal federal government. Those installments discussed how President Franklin ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part 3
By Rob Natelson 1934–1937: The Court’s Balancing Act There’s a common myth that President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed his 1937 court-packing plan because SCOTUS struck down all his New Deal programs. ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution: 1937–1944
By Rob Natelson Crisis and Depression In October 1929, a financial bubble broke. As always happens when financial bubbles break, people lost a great deal and hardship ensued. But bubbles ...
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