Constitution

Discussants of these issues have been making a muddle, confusing themselves and others. Let us try to sort things out. 1. The ...

Former supreme court justice John Paul Stevens has just published a book, Six Amendments , in which he proposes some very poorly worded refo...

We have recently seen a flurry of movements to convene an Article V convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution (links at the ...

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the ...

In a recent post to his blog, " A simple (and serious) puzzle for originalists ", Eric Posner states "All originalists ackno...

How the Bill of Rights came to be The original Constitution proposed by the Philadelphia Convention on September 17, 1787, did not contain...

It was not until NFIB v. Sibelius, 132 S.Ct. 2566 (2012), that the Supreme Court began to address the meaning of "proper" in the ...

There have been a number of Frequently Asked Questions pages posted on the Net concerning the government "shutdown" and debt ceili...

Reports on the controversy over continuing resolutions and raising the debt ceiling usually neglect to examine the underlying constitutional...

For many years I celebrated Constitution Day alone, usually holding signs in public places. Here is a report on one such day. But with my w...

This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital , by Mark Leibovich I spent two years ...

Commentator Mark Levin has come out with a new book, The Liberty Amendments , in which he proposes ten constitutional amendments, and argues...

In game theory a metagame is a game about another game, generally with the objective of finding the best rules or design for that other ...

In another forum a participant took the position that the authoritative version of the Declaration of Independence was not the one signed by...

In another forum the question was raised by a lawyer: Where is the case law providing that a grand jury can be formed and do anythin...

In another forum a participant asked the question: But isn't the central question ... whether even "law-trained persons" in ...

With few exceptions, bad Supreme Court precedents seem to move government in only one direction — toward greater power over people — despite...

The Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with multiple federal offenses, but none of them are authorized by the U.S. Co...