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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Feds Spying on Rest Areas Creating a Multi-State Bathroom Surveillance Program
DOT’s and police are now spying on rest areas in real-time 24/7. According to an article in the Star Tribune, transportation departments in eight states have installed cameras and sensors in rest ...
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A Constitution of Enumerated Powers
by Jim Lewis Okay, what does it mean to be a Constitution of Enumerated Powers ? First, we need to look up Enumerated to see what it means, more importantly ...
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Blind Partisanship is Toxic
By: José Alberto Niño| Partisanship is one of the illnesses plaguing the U.S. body politic. We see this every election cycle as millions of voters cast straight-ticket ballots for candidates ...
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The Resurgent States of America
By: Jackson Pemberton The “United States of America” has become a misnomer. In 1776, the words “state” and “nation” were synonyms. The USA could have been named “The United Nations ...
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A New Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare could Still Stand
By: Harold Pease Mid December 2018, Judge Reed O’Connor, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act last year ending ...
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Divine Right Of Obama
by KrisAnne Hall, JD In the finest tradition of tyrannical Kings from whom the people wrestled liberty throughout history, President Obama has declared ultimate executive power. On Monday, October 24, 2011 ...
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On Obamacare, Is Common Sense Really Judicial Activism?
by Thomas Ascik As one of its first acts, the new Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has intervened in the constitutional lawsuit in which Texas federal district-court judge Reed O’Connor, widely ...
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