Paging Dr. Madison! Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 10th Amendment
By: Bob Zadek “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” -James Madison, Speech in the Virginia ...
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Why the “National Public Vote” Scheme is Unconstitutional
By: Rob Natelson The U.S. Supreme Court says each state legislature has “plenary” (complete) power to decide how its state’s presidential electors are chosen. But suppose a state legislature decided ...
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Government Land Grabs, Regulations Equal Theft
by KrisAnne Hall, JD Government land grabs are becoming more and more prevalent every day. The federal government is seizing up more and more private land under the auspices of environmental preservation ...
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Yes! Trump has constitutional authority to secure our Southern Border
By Publius Huldah Instead of reading our Constitution and seeing what it says, Americans get their legal advice from what “everybody says”. Now, they are hearing about “emergency powers”, and ...
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James Madison: A Great Political Theorist, But Not A Great Lawyer
by John O. McGinnis James Madison has a strong claim to be both the greatest political theorist among the Framers and the President who contributed most to that discipline. Federalist ...
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Tennessee Bills Would Require Courts to Fully Inform Juries
By: Mike Maharrey NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 5, 2019) – Bills filed in the Tennessee legislature would require state courts to fully inform jurors of their right to use discretion in ...
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Details of Fusion Center Surveillance Revealed
By: Joe Wolverton, II The federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is silently and gradually converting local police agencies into regional subdivisions of the surveillance state. Typically, we get only ...
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What Is Originalism?
By: Rob Natelson When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, it was widely claimed he was appointing “originalists.” What is an originalist? Although originalists ...
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Government Exceptions to the 4th Amendment; Where are they?
by KrisAnne Hall, JD Judges these days seem just fine with allowing the government exceptions to the 4th Amendment. That doesn’t surprise me, I went to law school. So its ...
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Most People Treat the Constitution Like it’s Only a Suggestion
By: Mike Maharrey The Constitution is really just a series of suggestions. At least that’s how most American treat it. The concept of a “Living Breathing Constitution” is the biggest ...
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