James Madison Vetoes Infrastructure Bill as Unconstitutional
By: Dave Benner On the last day of his administration, March 3, 1817, President James Madison vetoed the Bonus Bill of 1817 – a plan that called for the federal ...
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The Relevance of the Preamble to Constitutional Interpretation
By: Michael Rappaport The preamble to the United States Constitution is something that is widely employed within political and theoretical arguments but is virtually never relied upon in court cases ...
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The President’s Enumerated Powers, Rulemaking by Executive Agencies, & Executive Orders
By Publius Huldah On election night, November 2, 2010, Rep. John Boehner said in his victory speech: “…While our new majority will serve as your voice in the people’s House, ...
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Term Limits Are Not the Answer
By: Laurence M. Vance Franklin D. Roosevelt has the distinction of being the only man to be elected to the office of the presidency four times (1932, 1936, 1940, and ...
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Progressives & Modern Feminists Don’t Want You To Know these Heroic Women
By KrisAnne Hall, JD Many who would rewrite history, would have us to believe the women during the revolution were oppressed subservient wives of overbearing, misogynistic husbands who dictated policy ...
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We Need More of This!
By: Mike Maharrey Wyoming just stuck a huge middle finger up at the federal government. More and more, we’re seeing states simply ignore the feds. As just one example, we ...
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The Lie of “Separation of Church and State” & the U.S. Supreme Court’s Usurpations of Power.
By Publius Huldah 1. How did it happen that our country became a land where Christian children are forbidden to use the word, “God”, in the public schools; public school ...
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We’ve Had This Debate on the Electoral College Before
By: Mike Maharrey The Electoral College has become a hotly contested issue in American politics. There’s a strong and vocal movement to do away with it and replace it with ...
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The “General Welfare” Clause
by JOHN W. BUGLER We Americans find ourselves faced with the disquieting specter of a national debt measured in trillions of dollars: a sum truly inconceivable. Many economists and politicians ...
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Gouverneur Morris’s Rewriting of the Constitution
by Mike Rappaport Recently, the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism held its annual Works-in-Progress Conference. One of the papers was written by Dean William Treanor of Georgetown Law ...
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