Should we interpret the Constitution so the feds can oversee everything affecting more than one state?
As the framers did with so many other decisions, in allocating authority between states and federal government they balanced competing values.
More evidence that the Obamacare insurance mandate was unconstitutional
A leading Founder pointed out that authority to regulate commerce did not include power to compel it.
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Video: Rob Natelson rebuts falsehoods spread about our Constitution
Rebutting discredited charges against the Constitution and the Founders
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What the Constitution says about impeachment
When weighing whether to impeach a sitting president, we consider how other presidents have acted. It is regrettable but true that many Presidents have routinely played fast and loose with the truth, acted incompetently, and used their office to attack political opponents.
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Why recent attacks on the Constitution are wrong
In fact . . . the claim that slaveholders adopted the Constitution is substantially false.
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How to reform our dysfunctional federal government
For many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
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How our Constitution was supposed to work: new evidence comes to light
. . . [A]ctivities over which the Constitution granted the federal government little or no jurisdiction [included] social services . . . education, religion, real estate, local businesses, most roads and other infrastructure, nearly all criminal law matters, and most civil court cases.
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Independence Institute helps win court ruling protecting presidential electors
The framers modeled the Electoral College on indirect election systems then prevailing in Scotland and Maryland, in which elector discretion was pivotal.
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“Red flag law”—Historically the phrase means a deceptive law not about “safety” at all!
Ironically, by adopting the term “red flag law,” promoters inadvertently admitted their real motive is not safety. This is because the phrase “red flag law” has been proverbial for an enactment masquerading as a safety measure but really passed for more sinister reasons.
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How the Founders told us the Constitution would restrict federal power
This new article presents even more evidence on how the federal government was supposed to be limited.
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John Paul Stevens’ greatest legacy
By clarifying constitutional amendment law, Stevens made it more accessible to citizens who now seek to use it to cure our dysfunctional federal government.
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How the Left dominates states through “National Popular Vote”
NPV enables Democrats and Left-leaning activists to control a state merely by running up vote totals in a few counties or regions.
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