A leading Founder pointed out that authority to regulate commerce did not include power to compel it.
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Rebutting discredited charges against the Constitution and the Founders
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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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Judges have no special expertise in identifying or balancing social benefits and social losses. . . Their rules turned out to be flawed. One of their flaws is that they pushed down the standards for public discourse.
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In fact . . . the claim that slaveholders adopted the Constitution is substantially false.
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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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. . . [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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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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This new article presents even more evidence on how the federal government was supposed to be limited.
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Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence probably received the most media attention. It is an essay on when the Supreme Court should follow precedent or overrule it. It helps lay the basis for reversing Roe v. Wade . . . .
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Some writers claim the framers adopted an indirect election procedure because they didn’t trust democracy. This is an oversimplification. The framers balanced many factors.
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On abortion policy America has ceased to be a democracy and has become a judicial oligarchy.
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