Resolution Affirming State Nullification Introduced in Louisiana
by Peter Rykowski A resolution affirming “the sovereign right of Louisiana to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government” has been introduced in the Louisiana state Legislature. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. ...
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Who’s Supreme? The Supremacy Clause Smackdown
By: Brion McClanahan When Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter signed HO391 into law on 17 March 2010, the “national” news media circled the wagons and began another assault on State sovereignty. ...
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Should We Abandon the Original Constitution?
By: Brion McClanahan Should we adhere to the original Constitution of 1789 or the Constitution of 1868? You might be asking, “What is the difference?” Last year, I talked about the ...
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Supreme Court Considers Domestic Spying Too Secret to Be Challenged
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to review a lower court’s dismissal of the Wikimedia Foundation’s lawsuit against a National Security Agency (NSA) ...
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Convention of States People Making Up History Again
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The con-con people are at it again: making up history to suit their purpose, that purpose being to call a second Constitutional Convention. Here’s what was ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Tacitus
By: Rob Natelson The authors discussed in this series impacted the Constitution both directly and indirectly. Citations to the authors by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790 are evidence of ...
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The Constitution Failed. It Secured Neither Peace nor Freedom.
by Ryan McMaken If one cares to look, it's not difficult to find numerous columns written for mainstream news outlets announcing that the US Constitution has failed. This ought to ...
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The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 11: Livy
by Rob Natelson Commentary The two previous essays (here and here) observed that the final years of the Roman Republic and the first years of the Roman Empire produced some outstanding poets. ...
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The Upside-Down Constitution and Its Critics
by Michael S. Greve In revisiting The Upside-Down Constitution ten years after I put that baby to bed, I am violating time-honored principles of sensible authorial conduct. One, as a great Dane ...
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New Study Finds Administrative State Unconstitutional
By: Rob Natelson The constitutional basis for most federal regulations is the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause. A new historical study shows, however, that the Interstate Commerce Clause is nowhere near as ...
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