2007/09/24

Constitutional views on abortion

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The abortion issue was misframed in the badly-argued Roe v. Wade case, which could not have been decided otherwise given the way it was arg...
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2007/09/19

Congressmen routinely violate duty under Constitution

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I spent 1970-72 in Washington, DC, working with members of Congress and their staffers, and have had frequent contacts with them since. The ...
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2007/09/15

Stettinius v. United States shows original meaning of "criminal jury trial"

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The case of Stettinius v. United States , 5 Cranch C.C. 573, 22 F. Cas. 1322, needs to be studied to understand the original meaning and rol...
2007/08/20

Jury size matters

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In my article, "Mansfieldism Reconsidered", section "Trial by Jury", http://www.constitution.org/lrev/jdr/mansfield_reco...
2007/05/15

Right to petition does not entail a right to get an answer

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The suit of the We the People Foundation (WTP) v. U.S. makes a flawed argument, that the right to petition entails the right to get an ans...
2007/02/17

Why campaign finance reform efforts have it backwards

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When I ran for Congress in Texas in 1974 I learned something important from my press agent: that one of the most important ways to influenc...
2007/01/02

New Year's Greeting

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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor ...
2005/07/12

Rep. Ron Paul on not depending on the courts for constitutional compliance

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Many "conservatives", such as Lino Graglia, are now taking the position that "judicial activism" (see http://en.wikipedi...
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2005/06/13

Why haven't nukes in U.S. been set off?

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It is no longer a secret that the U.S. intelligence community is warning of the existence of suitcase nukes already on U.S. territory under ...
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2005/06/07

Thomas comes closest in Ashcroft v. Raich

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The decision in Ashcroft v. Raich (restyled Gonzalez v. Raich since Alberto Gonzalez succeeded John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General) is a...
2005/05/29

French voters reject incompetent European Constitution

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Today 55% of the voters of France showed they had enough sense to reject a European "constitution" that must stand as the most inc...
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2005/04/12

Contrasting Conferences

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This is a report on two conferences I attended during early April, 2005, both on the topic of the Constitution, but profoundly different in ...