Colorado’s Supreme Court has once again weakened taxpayers’ rights
Each anti-TABOR court decision has become precedent for further anti-TABOR decisions.
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How the False Stories Against An Amendments Convention Got Started
Opponents then — like their successors today — claimed they were protecting the Constitution. But what they actually were (and are) doing is protecting judges and politicians who abuse their positions by changing constitutional rules without following the normal democratic process.
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A Colorado Bill Uses “Levels of Scrutiny” to Protect Competition
Judicial protection from most economic regulations — even grossly unfair and anti-competitive ones — is so weak as to be nearly non-existent.
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Schatz’s ignorance of our Anglo-American legal heritage is part of a much wider problem
Educated citizens who enter politics eventually learn that deep ignorance is not unusual among elected officials. To idealists, the discovery can be a shock.
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Cuomo’s Claim that capping SALT deductions is unconstitutional is wrong
Opponents of the new tax law are right to be concerned about federal overreaching, but they are barking up the wrong tree. They are inventing a fictional limit on federal authority while ignoring real ones.
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Another government shutdown would be great for America
Once again, we are threatened with a federal government “shutdown.” Well, this citizen out in the hinterland says, “Bring it
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New Research Finds Most State Constitutional “Blaine Amendments” Facially Unconstitutional
Rob’s new research demonstrates that bans on “sectarian” aid were . . . designed to require state officials to discriminate in favor of mainstream Protestantism and against any faiths they deemed “bigoted” or “extreme.”
The link between Obama’s departure and your increasing wealth
But let’s face it: The election of almost any of the major presidential candidates other than avowed socialist Bernie Sanders probably would have triggered a similar boom . . . the upsurge would have come because its principal cause has not been who was elected, but who has departed.
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The most ‘underrated’ founder’s influence on America’s Constitution
This much is clear: John Dickinson receives much more of our national gratitude than we have given him.
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Why removing historical monuments is a bad idea
[B]ecause almost everyone conforms in most respects to prevailing social practices, disqualification for such conduct is necessarily arbitrary and driven more by politics than by merit.
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State protection for citizen rights should temper ‘local control’
So when is local control good in reality rather than merely as a slogan?
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How a ‘convention of states’ could tweak the Constitution
Representatives of state legislatures from across the nation will converge in Phoenix, Arizona on Sept. 12 to participate in a
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