Eleven Years
Not Guilty: The Power of Jury Nullification to Counteract Government Tyranny
How do you balance the scales of justice at a time when Americans are being tasered, tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, hit with batons, shot with rubber bullets and real bullets, blasted with sound cannons, detained in cages and kennels, sicced by police dogs, arrested and...
The Rise of Delegation
We now live in a world of delegation. It is often said that most of the rules that are enforced at the federal level have not been enacted by Congress, but by administrative agencies. It was not always that way. The binding rules in the United States used to be...
The Battle Over the First National Bank and Its Constitutional Implications
What does a political battle waged over a bank in 1791 mean for Americans living in modern times? Quite a lot, it turns out. In a recent paper, America’s First Great Constitutional Controversy: Alexander Hamilton’s Bank of the United States, Professor Charles J. Reid...
War Presidents to the Left; War Presidents to the Right.
Who was the last American Presidential candidate to campaign on a pro-war platform? No major party candidate, in my lifetime, explicitly campaigned to lead the military into an offensive war. Interventionists from the left and right always argue that the wars of the...