Judicial oligarchy is the wrong way to decide abortion policy
On abortion policy America has ceased to be a democracy and has become a judicial oligarchy.
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More on how National Popular Vote would import third world “elections” to America
Nevada and Colorado legislatures voted to import a failed third-world election system into the United States.
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The Supreme Court re-affirms Indian treaty originalism
Why do many judges and commentators abandon standard interpretative methods when addressing some parts of the Constitution? The answer is clear.
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Are we in a constitutional crisis? Yes, but it’s not what you think
Will the American people correct the situation and end the crisis? Or is our era of constitutional government over? The answers depend largely on the fate of the “convention of states” movement.
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Leading Dem politicos utterly lack real world experience
Note the gaps in the biographies of all these people: A youthful disposition toward liberal ideology. No significant challenge to that ideology. No experience in small or entrepreneurial business either as an employer or employee, nor even in local government.
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What’s good about the U.S. Constitution
Many federal programs have been adopted in excess of the original Constitution’s limits on federal authority. They have been identified as culprits behind a number of serious social problems.
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The Supreme Court just applied originalism to an Indian treaty, so why not to the Constitution?
This case illustrates how judges apply originalism for almost all legal documents — except the Constitution.
National Popular Vote: Banana republic elections
In the 2006 Nicaraguan election, a plurality of only 38 percent elected socialist Daniel Ortega. Once in office, Ortega did what socialist thugs commonly do: suppress opposition. Nicaragua has not had an honest election since.
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New evidence on the meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause
“. . . .the powers of this Congress are confined to what is expressly delegated to them”
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New evidence on the constitutionality of paper money
I examined how the Constitution was represented to, and understood by, the ratifying public. And that resolved any doubt.
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The founder who told Americans we have a right to military weapons
“THE POWERS OF THE SWORD ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE YEOMANRY OF AMERICA FROM SIXTEEN TO SIXTY … Who are the militia? are they not ourselves[?].”
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New evidence on the “Power To . . . regulate . . . Commerce”
The three recently-issued Pennsylvania volumes . . . offer virtually no support to the commerce-is-everything school of thought. On the contrary, in the documents reproduced in this volumes “commerce” clearly refers to a concept separate from other economic and non-economic activities.
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