Writers on the Constitution frequently overlook valuable aids to interpreting the document. I previously have mentioned the example of eighteenth-century […]
The Independence Institute has filed amicus briefs in two of the anti-Obamacare cases. The briefs focus specifically on the Necessary
Obamacare is NOT “necessary and proper” Read More »
Despite what you may have heard, allowing people to vote on taxes and other laws is completely consistent with the
Yes, you can vote on taxes and laws in a republic! Read More »
There has been much attention recently on the Republican decision to block President Obama’s nomination of law professor Goodwin Liu
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Probably no part of the Constitution has been so misunderstood as the Necessary and Proper Clause, which is located at
In recent months, there has been interest in states forming compacts with each other to opt out of ObamaCare or
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The Constitution enumerates the power of the federal government—but are there authoritative lists of those powers reserved to the states
Constitutional powers the states have, and the feds do not Read More »
The Constitution’s Framers thought deeply about the qualifications for federal office. Those qualifications are in the Constitution for very good
The importance of being “natural born” Read More »
[T]his bill . . . is an attack on state courts and on the civil jury system itself.
Control of the state courts—the latest federal takeover target? Read More »
Behind the current constitutional debates over ObamaCare, there is an assumption that Congress has power to regulate health insurance as
Is health insurance “Commerce among the States?” Read More »
You can sympathize with the humanitarian motives of our Libyan intervention while still doubting its constitutionality. The Constitution prescribes the
Obama’s Libyan Operations are Unconstitutional Read More »
It is sometimes suggested that the Founders did not consider property rights important because the term “property” was mentioned only
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