Constitution

The Court may have gotten the decision correct in this case, but not the opinion, and that was because it was not argued as well as it shoul...

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Sen. Jim Demint and others have introduced S. Joint Res. 38 ,  The Balanced Budget Amendment. Although this would seem to be a good idea on ...

Two bills, HB 1705 by Rep. Matthew Hill , and SB 1474 by Senator Stacy Campfield , were recently introduced. Although they have much meri...

In the most general sense, " common law " is just the body of court precedents , which changes with each new precedent. The term o...

There is a fundamental flaw in the U.S. v. Comstock opinion. While Congress arguably has authority to conduct competency hearings and detai...

The House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary has posted  a version with the December 2010 amendments: http://judiciary.house.go...

Persons who seek original meaning of laws such as the Constitution often confuse themselves by conflating original meaning of the language t...

The Fourth Circuit opinion in  United States v. Chester , decided Dec. 30, 2010, contains the following conclusion from the two-judge majori...

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What are the origins of constitutional infidelity? Some go back to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 , but that was turned back by the Ele...

Jurisdiction is authority to act, generally in some official capacity. It presumes constraints on such authority, so that some acts may be ...

The Wikileaks saga raises a number of constitutional issues, which deserve to be discussed on this forum. Here are a few: 1. By original u...

Does the U.S. Constitution prescribe majority votes in Congress? This question came up in the Volokh Conspiracy forum. The answer is no...

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Judge Andrew Napolitano (and others) continues to repeat the error of saying all the powers delegated to Congress are contained in Art. I S...

The bill by Texas Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler), HB 297, http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB297 , mi...

The following was sent to Representative Ken Paxton, a leading contender for election as Speaker of the Texas House. -------- Original Mes...

One of the things I find misleading about discussions of constitutional interpretation in the Founding Era, particularly by "federalist...

After years of study of our situation, I have concluded that there are just two things we can do, and that have to be done in tandem. The fi...