The Supreme Court’s latest campaign finance decision, McCutcheon v. FEC, has sent up the predictable howls. In McCutcheon, the Court […]
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The Bundy stand-off in Nevada has induced several people to ask me about the extent to which the federal government
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Earlier this year, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy published my article showing that the Constitution’s Recess Appointments
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A spate of new applications from state legislatures for a “convention for proposing amendments” make it more likely that we
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Article V of the Constitution authorizes a “Convention for proposing Amendments.” However, it does did not specify how the convention
Take out a dollar bill and look on the back. There you will see the two sides of the Great
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The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently refused to dismiss the suit by various public sector
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(This article originally appeared in the American Thinker.) Opponents of a Convention of States long argued that there was an
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Many opponents of an Article V convention seem to think that it would be a nearly unique event, for which
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or “Obamacare”) imposes a sliding-scale financial penalty on people who do not
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A federal court of appeals has just vindicated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in a big
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Last May, I reported that litigation over President Obama’s “recess appointments” was going to the Supreme Court. In fact, oral
