Chief Justice John Marshall: The feds have no power over your health care!
Our greatest chief justice was clear: Health regulations are for the states alone.
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Understanding the Constitution: Why most federal land holdings are unconstitutional and why you should care
Here’s the most important underlying cause of the fires: federal land ownership.
Tenant eviction moratoria are more than unconstitutional; they’re insurrectionary
These orders, federal and state, and not merely unconstitutional. They are fundamentally anti-constitutional. They are at war with a fundamental reason the Constitution was adopted.
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Understanding the Constitution: the style of the preamble
Gouverneur Morris had been educated in Greek and Latin poetry, but in composing the preamble he wisely adopted meter appropriate to English. He heightened the effect with alliteration and near rhymes.
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Defending the Constitution: Secrets behind those ‘obscure’ provisions
Here are questions and answers addressing five of the Constitution’s less famous provisions.
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Defending the Constitution: The founders’ words were not ‘meaningless’ or ‘vague’
The charge that the Constitution is “vague” is based on ignorance.
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Defending the Constitution: limits on federal authority
A final reason for decentralization is much less widely understood: Political decentralization promotes human progress.
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Defending the Constitution: The 2nd Amendment is not outdated
Obviously she was never taught the difference between ordinary legislation (such as traffic laws) and a general constitutional standard.
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Why the District of Columbia should not be a state
In presidential contests D.C. voters do not seriously weigh the merits or demerits of presidential candidates. The District is a dependency of the federal government, and its electorate invariably votes for the party that offers more government
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Defending the Constitution from the ‘living constitutionalists’
“In practice, “living constitutionalism” converts our Constitution into a parchment loin cloth to cover political pudenda.”
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Defending the Constitution: The Framers did not violate their trust
The overwhelming majority of the framers had been given full authority to propose a new government. Charges that they did not are based on ignorance.
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Defending the Constitution: Why state equality in the Senate makes sense
Social justice warriors also may be offended by my outlining another way the Senate improves decision making. Here it is . . .
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