Today in History: The Philadelphia Convention Scheduled to Begin
By: Dave Benner Today in 1787, delegates from the several states convened in Philadelphia to form a convention with the initial aim of proposing amendments to the Articles of Confederation. ...
Read more.War on Venezuela: An Unconstitutional Disaster in the Making
by Ron Paul Is President Trump about to invade Venezuela? His advisors keep telling us in ever-stronger terms that “all options are on the table” and that US military intervention ...
Read more.Energy in the Legislature
by Philip A. Wallach The Vanishing Congress: Reflections on Politics in Washington is a curious hybrid. It is variously a primer on Congress’s constitutional duties, a scholarly (though note-less) consideration ...
Read more.Texas Committee Holds Hearing on Bill to Review and Reject Unconstitutional Federal Acts
By: Mike Maharrey AUSTIN, Texas (April 19, 2019) – On Wednesday, a Texas House committee held a hearing on a bill that would create a mechanism to review federal laws and ...
Read more.Resisting the System: Interview with Bill Greene on Ending the Fed, and More
By: Mike Maharrey Bill Greene’s biggest claim to fame is spurning Donald Trump and voting for Ron Paul as a member of the electoral college in 2016. But Bill is ...
Read more.Julian Assange: Political Prisoner
by Ron Paul Last week’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an ...
Read more.The Peculiar Institution and the Supreme Court
by Joyce Lee Malcolm Paul Finkelman, in his new book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court, plunges into the private lives of the three most prominent Supreme Court ...
Read more.Does The Ninth Amendment Constitutionally Protect Unenumerated Rights?
by Mike Rappaport Recently, I wrote a couple of posts on whether the Privileges or Immunities Clause protected unenumerated rights. In my view, the Clause does protect such rights, but ...
Read more.Weaponizing People for Political Gain is Nothing New
By: Suzanne Sherman On April 12, 2019, the Los Angeles Times published an article headlined “Trump Threatens to Dump Immigrants into California’s ‘Sanctuary Cities.” The article explains that the plan ...
Read more.The Judiciary Can Restore the Power of Congress
by Peter J. Wallison The recent Law & Liberty post by James Rogers, “How to Rebalance Power between Congress and the Executive Branch,” is focused on the right question: incentives. ...
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