St. George Tucker: The American Founding’s Preeminent Originalist
While many of Americaโs founders are justifiably famous, others have received too little attention.ย St. George Tuckerย is one. Born July 10, 1752, in Bermuda, Tucker was a militia colonel in the American Revolution, who even wroteย Liberty: a Poem, on the Independence...
The Founders’ words were not “meaningless” or “vague”
A common accusation, especially from liberal academics and judges, is that many constitutional phrases are vague or meaningless. Or, asย statedย by former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, they are โluminous and obscure.โ Advocates of an all-powerful central...
Abstractions Make for Bad Law
One of the interesting things the human mind can do is to use abstractions. We can think and talk of carrots and crops. Carrots are real physical things. You can eat one. The word “crops,” on the other hand, means plants grown to be...