Constitution 101
Federal Land Ownership: Is It Constitutional?
The ongoing Cliven Bundy situation in Nevada has raised awareness of the hazards of federal land management. In Nevada, the federal government owns a stunning 81 percent of the land. On the land they manage, the feds are threatening to evict tenants who refuse to pay...
Letters of Marque and Reprisal: An Introduction
Several times during his tenure as a Congressman, Ron Paul suggested using letters of marque and reprisal to seize property and exact harm upon Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda officials. Offering a bill in October of 2001, Paul’s suggestion would have allowed:...
The Necessary and Proper Clauses
John Mikhail (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted The Necessary and Proper Clauses (Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 102, No. 4, 2014) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Article’s main purpose is to provide a new and more accurate account of the origins of...
Exposing the “Living Document” Lie
Despite all historical evidence to the contrary, it is often claimed that the Constitution is a “living document” that is easily malleable through semantics and modern desires for extended federal power. This is the view that saturates public schools, the mainstream...