First Amendment Decision Unrelated to the First Amendment
People often claim that the Supreme Court is “conservative.” Rob Natelson says, “not so fast!”
Gun Liberty and McDonald
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” This is especially the case with gun liberty. The price of absolute gun liberty is indeed eternal vigilance.
2nd Amendment Victory? An Opposing View
Let’s not be allured by the siren song of the Supreme Court and their supposed defense of our right to keep and bear arms. It’s really not what it seems…
Gunning Down the Constitution
The Bill of Rights was never intended to be a list of individual rights, but a list of things the federal government could not do.
Kevin Gutzman: Freedom vs the Courts
In this podcast, Kevin Gutzman talks about the Incorporation Doctrine and why liberty is best protected under the founders’ vision of federalism.
Phony Originalism
Democrat or Republican, politicians in D.C. can’t be trusted to follow the Constitution. Column by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
The 2nd Amendment and the States
To understand the debate in this topic, it helps to briefly review constitutional history. When the Constitution was first proposed, opponents of the new document criticized it for lacking a bill of enumerated rights, which were common in virtually every state constitution of the time.
Turning the Constitution on its Head
With its decision in Nordyke v. King last week, in which the recent Supreme Court Heller decision was applied to state law, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took another step down the long road of “incorporating†the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. In doing so, it continued down the path toward completely inverting the model of government to which The People agreed when they ratified the Constitution.
