New Article: Government's Obligation To Be Impartial
The Constitution was adopted amid a belief that government is a public trust.* Does the Constitution require federal and state […]
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New Article: Government’s Obligation To Be Impartial
The Constitution was adopted amid a belief that government is a public trust.* Does the Constitution require federal and state
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Did Obamacare Violate the Constitution’s Origination Clause? No. . . and Yes
Note: This a modified version of an article that appeared at The American Thinker. Two years ago, the Supreme Court
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How Much Authority Does Congress Have Under the Treaty Power? The Question the Supreme Court Dodged in Bond v. U.S.
In its recent decision in Bond v. United States, the Supreme Court avoided deciding whether Congress, in executing a treaty,
The Dark Side of Hobby Lobby: Contraceptive Coverage as a ‘Compelling Government Interest’
Note: This item originally appeared at the website of The American Thinker. The Hobby Lobby case is being hailed by
More evidence that “progressivism” increasingly is totalitarianism
Early this year in The American Thinker and in this column I discussed state marijuana legalization and federalism. I cautioned
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Book Review: James Madison: A Life Reconsidered, by Lynn Cheney (Viking, 2014)
After some truly painful reading experiences, I’ve become skeptical of history books written by celebrities. Lynn Cheney is the wife
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Problems in the Recess Appointments Case (Even though Rob was cited again)
(This article originally appeared in The American Thinker.) I applaud the result of the recess appointments case and I am
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Conservatives need to support trial by jury, too
Although I’ve often criticized the constitutional tone-deafness of “progressives,” conservatives can sometimes exhibit such tendencies as well. Over at The
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Momentum for an Amendments Convention Accelerates Even More
Well over a hundred state lawmakers from 33 states met this past week to plan for an Article V “Convention
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Momentum for Amendments Convention Accelerates
It increasingly looks like a “convention for proposing amendments” is really going to happen. The last 18 months have witnessed
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The Results Are In: The Obamacare “Penalty” Didn’t Violate the Origination Clause, but Obamacare’s Regulations Did
Is the penalty for not buying insurance in the Affordable Care Act (ACA—Obamacare) unconstitutional as a “tax” that originated in