Constitution

It is encouraging to see contenders introducing the issue of constitutional compliance into the campaign. However, none of them appear to ye...

I predict history will conclude the Election of 2008 was decided when Obama unwisely chose Biden as his running mate and McCain brilliantl...

Columnist Robert Novak was one of the two keynote speakers, along with former U.S. Rep. Barry Goldwater, Jr., at the evening dinner of the A...

Rather than searching for evidence of courts taking an individual rights view, it might make more sense to seek evidence from near the Found...

DC v. Heller is an important win for the right to keep and bear arms. It's holdings are narrow: that two provisions of the DC statute...

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...