What Does the Constitution Mean by a State Legislature?
The Constitution’s multiple references to “state legislatures” raise difficult and significant issues. The main question is whether we can give a consistent answer to the meaning of this term across a large number of different constitutional clauses that both fits...
Why state equality in the Senate makes sense
Political “progressives” have intensified their attack on the U.S. Constitution. This is the fourth in a series of essays showing why their principal charges are false. The first essay answered the charge that the Constitution discriminated against women. As that...
State Governments and the People’s Liberty
Many people today seem to think it’s the federal government’s job to protect their liberty. But the Founding Fathers didn’t. In fact, they feared the new government would become too powerful and trample individual liberty. They had a healthy distrust...