“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.”
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 Office...
by David Gordon, Mises.org [How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution. By Richard A. Epstein. Cato Institute, 2006. xiii + 156 pages.] “Lochner-era jurisprudence” elicits a mindless sneer from most contemporary legal theorists. In Lochner v. New York...
by David Gordon, Mises.org [Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution. By William J. Quirk. Transaction Publishers, 2008. Xviii + 312 pages.] Courts and Congress defends a revolutionary thesis. If asked, who has the final say in our government on the...
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 “incorporation†of the Bill of Rights against the states and the Second Amendment. This subject is rearing its head...
by Rob Natelson, Electric City Weblog Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s comment at Duke Law School that the U.S. Court of Appeals “makes policy†has received a lot of attention, and deservedly so. Understanding what prompted her remark is key to...
