What the Framers really said about the purpose of amendments to our Constitution
By Publius Huldah One of the silliest of the many unsupported claims made by those lobbying for an Article V convention is that our Framers said that when the federal ...
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Why Media Has Become a Tool of the Political Complex
by KrisAnne Hall, JD Over the years the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been used as a Trojan horse to unload dangerous legislation on America people. The subject of this ...
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Trashing the 12th Amendment with the National Popular Vote
By Publius Huldah The compact for a National Popular Vote (NPV) is a destructive scheme. Yet it’s been approved by several States; and is pending in others. Since the text ...
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Presidential Budgets: When A Cut isn’t a Cut
By: Mike Maharrey Remember when a budget cut was actually a cut in spending rather than a cut in the expected increase in spending? President Trump’s proposed budget calls for ...
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The Incorporation Doctrine and the Bill of Rights
by Michael Maharrey In my last Constitution 101 post, I established that the Bill of Rights was not originally intended to apply to the states. But lawyers and other supporters ...
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Is a Presidential “State of Emergency” Constitutional?
By: KrisAnne Hall My inbox is being inundated with the question de jure: “If President Trump declares a ‘State of Emergency’ to build the wall on the border of Mexico, ...
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Dear Fellow Peasant
Paul Jacob “A public debate on the merits of a measure can reveal its flaws,” the Bismarck Tribune calmly and reasonably editorialized recently, adding, “and then we have to trust ...
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Beveridge Loved It; Roane Hated It; Few Today Understand McCulloch Properly
by Kevin Walsh Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion for the Court in McCulloch v. Marylandis a classic of American constitutional law. That is why we continue debates about its meaning and significance ...
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Competing Conceptions of Union and Ordered Liberty in The Webster-Hayne Debate
by Aaron N. Coleman Herman Belz’s The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union is the first document collection included in Liberty Fund’s series of Liberty Classics. This is ...
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McCulloch: A “Rule of Construction” Too “Broad and Pliant”
by Kevin Gutzman On October 22, 1819, Chief Judge Spencer Roane of the Virginia Court of Appeals (now the Virginia Supreme Court) dashed off a quick cover letter to former ...
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