John Lansing, Jr. used the New York Bill of Rights as one basis for the proposed constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison.
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As Justice Samuel Alito pointed out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (pdf)—and as the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia said repeatedly—the Fifth and 14th Amendment Due Process Clauses really have nothing to do with abortion.
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This two-part essay is a primer on the longest amendment ever adopted—the 14th.
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On abortion policy America has ceased to be a democracy and has become a judicial oligarchy.
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Note: An earlier version of this article appeared in The American Thinker. The Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution
I recently visited the new Ralph Carr Colorado Judicial Center—the huge and incredibly expensive building complex that now houses the
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