“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt of Raoul Berger’s book (chapter 16) Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Foreword by Forrest McDonald (2nd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1997). A common historicist...
by H.A. Scott Trask, Mises.org [This article was excerpted from chapter 3 of Reassessing the Presidency, edited by John V. Denson.] When Jefferson ran for president in 1800, he made it clear that he supported strict construction, original intent jurisprudence,...
by Timothy Baldwin, Esq. From Chuck Baldwin: Note: My son, Tim, writes today’s column. He is an attorney who received his Juris Doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a former prosecutor for the Florida State Attorney’s...
by Gennady Stolyarov II In Marbury v. Madison (1804), John Marshall argues that the Supreme Court ought to have the authority to determine the constitutionality of laws which come before the court. Since the judges must apply the laws to particular cases, they must...
by Ryan Cooper Springfield News-Leader – March 17, 2009 “From the Right” appears every Tuesday. “Every school child in America should be required to read the Bible.” At that point, I stopped clapping for Patrick Buchanan, who was speaking...
