The Founders and the Twitter Mob
As the Founders recognized, the human impulse toward mob behavior is not going to disappear. But reforms can limit its influence.
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Constitutional Originalists Love America
Being an originalist is not a good career move [but] we do it out of love.
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Fact Check: No, overruling Roe v. Wade would not endanger other rights
Overruling Roe would have no effect on any of these other cases.
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Left-wing conspiracy theories
The left advances crazy conspiracy theories not because they are true, but for political goals.
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Why the Leak of the Draft Decision on Roe v. Wade?
A likely motive is to recreate what happened in Montana in 1972: to expose a potential swing justice to political pressure.
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How objections to an amendments convention got started
Arguments some right-wing groups use to oppose an amendments convention were invented by activists on the Left.
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The Fascinating Supreme Court Opinions in the Vaello Madero Case
Justice Thomas punctured a judicial balloon and Justice Gorsuch issued his own sizzling opinion.
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Are constitutional amendments coming?
Far from authorizing more federal power, amendments almost certainly will reduce federal prerogatives and edge us toward decentralization.
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Truth and Tradition: Reflections on the Motto of a Great Newspaper
Any lady may travel alone, from one end of the United States to the other, and be certain of the courteous and considerable treatment everywhere — America as it used to be, according to Charles Dickins
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Using the Constitution to Re-Rank the Presidents
Grover Cleveland belongs in the top 20 . . . Similarly, Calvin Coolidge should be in the top 20 . . . Lyndon Johnson belongs in the bottom five.
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A Preliminary Response to Prof. Ablavsky’s “Indian Commerce Clause” Attack
An advocate of vast congressional power takes quotes out of context, misrepresents what others say, and makes historical errors
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The ‘Independent Legislature Doctrine’—and why it frightens many on the left
The hysteria has been matched only by the detractors’ astonishing constitutional ignorance.
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