Colorado's wind energy: neither free nor clean
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- August 5, 2011
In constitutional law, the methods applied by “progressives” are the new, partisan inventions. Originalism is the standard bequeathed by the ages.
READ MOREThis series explains THE central event in the conversion of a constitutional federal government into the present unlimited “monster state.”
READ MORENothing in the Constitution gives [the Speaker of the House a presidential-style veto.
READ MORE[A] whole generation of law students has been trained to think that the 19th century courts were heartless tools of malicious capitalists, and that enlightened reform came only with the virtuous 20th century “progressives.”
READ MOREEvery so often I’m asked whether the Founders anticipated judicial review. In other words, whether the Founders expected the courts to void laws they found unconstitutional. The clear answer is “yes.” During the colonial era, each colony was governed by its charter, which was a kind of constitution for the colony. Colonial laws in violation
READ MOREOne of the most enduring myths in American constitutional history is that Chief Justice John Marshall was a judicial activist whose decisions are good precedent for the modern federal monster state. Marshall was the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (third, if you don’t count John Rutledge, a recess appointment who was never
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