Thomas Jefferson
How Thomas Jefferson Handled the National Debt
The way Pres. Thomas Jefferson handled the national debt should be a blueprint for all modern presidents. When Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he inherited $19.95 trillion federal debt. And in just its first two years, the Trump administration and the...
Thomas Jefferson Rejects the Power of Congress to “Do Whatever Evil They Please”
Thomas Jefferson rejected the “anything and everything” view of the general welfare clause that so many hold today. Conventional wisdom holds that the Constitution’s “general welfare” clause authorizes the federal government to do...
Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
When we discuss the evolution of presidential power in early American history, it is sometimes alleged that the Louisiana Purchase was a particularly unconstitutional act and an example of presidential malfeasance. According to this line of reasoning, President Thomas...
Does the Federal Government Have the Power to Regulate Immigration? Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Said No
President Trump has announced his second nomination to the Supreme Court. Perhaps as forward in the minds of conservatives as preserving the right to keep and bear arms, expressly protected from federal infringement by the Second Amendment, is how the new justice...