Gunning Down the Constitution

by Jack Hunter, from The American Conservative When the City of Chicago banned all handguns recently, countless Americans rightly cried foul. When it looked like the Supreme Court might overturn the ban, gun-rights advocates cheered the decision. But while their heart...

Phony Originalism

by Kevin R.C. Gutzman, Taki’s Magazine Since the days of Ronald Reagan and Edmund Meese, the Republican Partyรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs position has been that judges should be bound by the peopleรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs understanding of a particular constitutional provision at the time they ratified...

The 2nd Amendment and the States

by Patrick Krey, The New American There are few topics that can divide people who are normally ideological bedfellows like the legal doctrine of the รขโ‚ฌล“incorporationรขโ‚ฌย of the Bill of Rights against the states and the Second Amendment. This subject is rearing its head...