Constitution

Most proposed or enacted voter ID statutes include a requirement to prove eligibility to vote by presenting proof of identity, and require t...

It is a common mistake of modern readers to presume that a term used in many instances in a document such as the Constitution has the ...

In his excellent book, Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of law , Richard Epstein begins his discuss...

Most of the constitutional debates in which I participate are about whether to comply strictly with the Constitution as originally meant and...

Many people are trying to find the motivation of CJ John Roberts in his extraordinary opinion in NFIB v. Sibelius , the health care case. ...

A question I often get is to indicate a comprehensive, authoritative list of constitutional rights. Most legal scholars in the past have dec...

One of the most controversial clauses of the Constitution is Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 18, which reads: [The] Congress shall have Power [...] To ...

A useful exercise is to diagram the clauses of the U.S. Constitution using the Reed-Kellogg method many of us learned in public school....

There was a hush in the room during the oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act when Justice Anthony Kennedy asked Solicitor General Donal...

The entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaid funds is ...

Several proposals have been offered to deal with such problems as dangerous speculation in derivatives, moral hazard, and "too big to f...

The hallmark of Enlightenment scientific reasoning is a commitment to diligently seeking refutations to one's favorite propositions. Co...

Journal of the House of Representatives (December, 1832)     Mr. Wilde presented the following preamble and resolutions, adopted by th...

At noon of March 27, 2012, Texas Governor Rick Perry held a telephone conference with several prominent Texas bloggers, among them Jon Rolan...