2017/01/04

Are state 'police powers' constitutional?

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To any of the Framers the answer would have been thought to be obviously yes. The U.S. Constitution delegated to Congress a list of "en...
2016/12/22

Originalism does not support social conservative agenda

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We often get the argument that rights have to be explicitly listed (enumerated) or at least mentioned to be judicially enforceable. Justice ...
2016/12/15

Did the federal jury do right?

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A federal jury convicted Dylan Roof of s federal "crime' under 18 USC 922, for use of a firearm in the murders of people in a churc...
2016/12/14

Why LGBT mania?

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Transgender persons comprise less than 1/10 of 1 percent of the population. That number can't explain the intensity of the drive for ...
2016/12/10

Liquid Fuel Thorium Reactor

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Liquid Fuel Thorium Reactor (LFTR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4 Uploaded on Oct 4, 2011 ...
2016/11/24

Clinton misbehavior not constitutional crimes

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Many people are shocked to find out, but under the Constitution, as strictly interpreted, 1. There is no authority to make bribery a crim...
2016/11/21

Eighty ambiguous phrases

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My analysis of the U.S. Constitution counts about 80 words or phrases that are somewhat ambiguous, and give rise to most of the interpreta...
2016/11/15

Can seditious libel be made a crime under the U.S. Constitution?

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Professor James G. Wilson asks whether it is constitutional to make seditious libel a crime. As a consistent originalist I can answer that. ...
2016/11/13

Trump's first 100 day agenda

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President-elect Trump has proposed a list of initiatives he intends to make during his first 100 days in office. The list can be found here ...
2016/11/11

Pardon before conviction?

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Can the President pardon people who haven’t been convicted? Jacob Leibenluft, in his  article  in  Slate , has missed an important po...
2016/11/10

Voting for the least embarrassing

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I have found this presidential election enlightening for the motives I found among the partisans for each of the main candidates. They had v...
2016/10/27

Wayward World

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New Amazon Kindle book by Jon Roland Wayward World: A new kind of hero must set history on a different course to save Earth from destructi...
2016/10/09

Why Brexit? Meddlesome regulations.

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I expected something like Brexit would happen eventually. Perhaps not first with Britain. Once the Brussels Bureaucracy began to flood the ...
2016/09/21

Conquest by infiltration

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2016/08/02

Three schools of interpretation

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The English common law tradition has essentially three schools of interpretation: royalist. tory, and whig. One point on which the schools...
2016/07/16

How to get people today to adopt sound reforms?

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How to get people today to adopt sound reforms? That is the question many concerned people ask themselves as they try to develop and sell ...