Constitution

The oral argument yesterday in DC v. Heller , the Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court, involved what I regard, and have rega...

As a veteran of many election campaigns and movements, going back to 1960, and as having spoken to a lot of voters in this campaign season, ...

The concept of the social contract (or compact, as some prefer), developed by such political philosophers as John Locke and Jean-Jacques R...

The granting of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme court in D.C. v. Heller provides the first great opportunity we have had to get a decision o...

Whenever the subject of excessive dependence on oil imports comes up, someone always calls for achieving energy independence, but then the d...

The last two elections were not referenda on Iraq, because they were not framed as a change in direction toward any particular policy alte...

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...

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

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...

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