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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Tench Coxe on the Senate: A Counter to Anti-Federalist Aristocracy Fears
By: Mike Maharrey The structure of the Senate was a serious point of contention for many Anti-Federalists, who warned it would quickly become a permanent or baneful aristocracy, with most senators serving for life. Tench ...
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The High Cost of Political Capture
by Brent Orrell Politics doesn’t just make strange bedfellows; it can also make self-dealing ones. A new study of the economic impact of the $787 billion 2009 American Recovery ...
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Tench Coxe on the Executive Branch: President, not a King
By: Mike Maharrey American presidents behave almost like elected kings, exercising vast powers with very little accountability. But that wasn’t the plan. Tench Coxe was a key figure in ...
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A ‘Warren Report’ Isn’t Going to Fly In 2024
by Cliff Nichols Everybody knows that the “lone gunman” is dead, but the controversy surrounding the theory that Thomas Matthew Crooks was a “lone gunman” is not. Many ...
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