States’ Rights: The Key to Restoring Liberty
State’s rights isn’t a dirty word! In fact, State’s rights is the key to restoring liberty in America. So said Brion McClanahan during a recent podcast episode. This review of The Brion McClanahan Show is going to be a bit meta. I’m reviewing a...
Incorporation of the Bill of Rights in the Fourteenth Amendment
by Raoul Berger EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt of the book Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Foreword by Forrest McDonald (2nd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1997). Invocation of the Bill of Rights against...
First Amendment Decision Unrelated to the First Amendment
by Robert G. Natelson Commentators and journalists sometimes describe the current U.S. Supreme Court as “conservative.” But that’s not true if your definition of a conservative justice is a traditional or “originalist” jurist that is,...