You can sympathize with the humanitarian motives of our Libyan intervention while still doubting its constitutionality. The Constitution prescribes the […]
Obama’s Libyan Operations are Unconstitutional Read More »
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might
Corrective Constitutional Amendments? Read More »
Last week, Senator John Kerry (D.-Mass) was unhappy with a Republican plan to cut as much as $61 billion out
The U.S. Budget Situation is Worse than Even You Imagined Read More »
Commentators and journalists sometimes describe the current U.S. Supreme Court as “conservative.” But that’s not true if your definition of
Supreme Court’s New First Amendment Decision Unrelated to the First Amendment Read More »
Our sister institution, The Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona has just published my paper, Amending the Constitution by Convention: Practical
New paper summarizes rules for amending the Constitution Read More »
Are you a state lawmaker or reform advocate challenged to answer “tough questions” about a Convention for Proposing Amendments? If
Amendments Convention: Answering Those Not-So-Tough Questions Read More »
Sometimes even friends of the Constitution misinterpret the document or the history surrounding it. Throughout the country right now, state
Madison being misread (on an amendments convention) Read More »
Congress’s power to “define and punish . . . Offenses against the Law of Nations” included authority to “define” immigration rules and “punish” those who violated them.
Does the Constitution really give Congress power over immigration? Read More »
“How to” Issue Papers on obtaining needed constitutional amendments without the consent of Congress.
How to amend the Constitution safely and without Congress — according to the Founders Read More »
[Rob Natelson is the author of The Original Constitution: What It Really Said and Meant – an objective explanation of
Was the Constitutional Convention a “Runaway?” Read More »
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
Airport searches and the Fourth Amendment Read More »
Real scholarship is about facts, not argument.
Why law professors don’t tell us much about our Constitution Read More »
