A Jeffersonian American Patriot is a State Patriot
One day in January 1811, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a French man of letters whose book he so much admired that he translated it into English and saw to its ...
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Constitutional Interpretation and the Impeachment Power
Last week, I began what I expect to be a series of posts on the constitutional power of impeachment. What is the proper understanding of the Constitution’s standard for impeachment ...
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Saul Cornell’s Unfair Criticism of Originalists and Mike Ramsey
Originalist critic Saul Cornell has written a new blog post attacking originalism. Cornell’s principal claim in this piece is that originalists misunderstand anti-originalist criticisms of originalism and his focus is ...
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The Founders on Federal Enforcement
Some people believe that all branches of the federal government should fully enforce all federal laws until they’re overturned by a court or repealed by Congress. But the Founders disagreed. ...
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The Original Meaning and The Exclusionary Rule
In his recent concurrence in Collins v. Virginia, Justice Clarence Thomas argues that the exclusionary rule for Fourth Amendment violations should not be applied against the states. He states that ...
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Anti-Commandeering: An overview of five major Supreme Court cases
The Supreme Court has long held that states do not have to actively participate in the enforcement or effectuation of federal acts or regulatory programs. James Madison’s advice for resisting ...
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An Entertaining Way To Easily Learn About The US Constitution
A captivating statesman from America’s past takes a modern-day family on a series of wild adventures. With a spicy mix of humor, magic and logic, he opens their eyes to ...
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The NSA Continues to Abuse Americans with a 300% Increase in Data Intercepted and Stored
One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of ...
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Supreme Court’s Sports Gambling Opinion is a Rare and Major Win for the Tenth Amendment
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Murphy v. NCAA. The Court’s opinion was rare in that it not only struck down a federal law that infringed on ...
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