The Message of the Farmer Letters
The Farmer letters are best understood when read in conjunction with Dickinson’s 1764 speech and his 1774 Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain Over the Colonies in America.
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John Dickinson Comes into Prominence
This year marks the 250th anniversary of one of the most influential series of writings in American history, Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
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Balancing Local Control and Individual Rights
“Local control” is something politicians promote or ignore at their convenience.
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John Dickinson’s “Farmer” Letters on their 250th Anniversary
Dickinson, like other Founders, emphasized the need to protect liberty by frequently resorting to “first principles.” This 250th anniversary offers Americans an opportunity to do just that.
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Under the Constitution, Regulating Marijuana is Mostly a State Concern
Congress may not constitutionally regulate or prohibit in-state growing, processing, or use of marijuana.
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A Response to a “Living Constitutionalist”
Most law professors focus on Supreme Court cases. They have limited familiarity with the Founding Era record.
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What Can We Do About Legal Realism and Its Promotion of Judicial Activism?
The first thing to remember is that the problem centers in specific institutions
DetailsJudicial activism: Here’s a core reason for it you’ve never heard about
our problem is not how the law works most of the time, but how it works in federal tribunals and in the state supreme courts. That is where judicial activism occurs.
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The Define and Punish Clause doesn’t authorize vast federal power either
Apparently those words have been in the Constitution for over 200 years without anyone realizing that they authorize the federal government to pass all sorts of domestic regulations.
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How the New York Times Misrepresents the Supreme Court
The story’s problems begin with the lead paragraph’s assertion that Justice Neil Gorsuch’s appointment is “a conservative replacing another conservative.
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The Relationship Between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Their connection is not difficult to understand.
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Reduce Holdings of Federal Lands
Interior secretary nominee Ryan Zinke served his country honorably as a Navy SEAL, but in affirming in his federal lands testimony that he would refuse to loosen the government’s chokehold on America’s land, he did the U.S. a disservice. Reasonable people can disagree about how much territory the government should own. As an avid outdoorsman, I’m sympathetic…
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