“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.”
Anti-Federalists generally worried that the Constitution would give the general government too much power. One area that caused concern was the power to make treaties. Patrick Henry addressed this issue in speeches during the Virginia ratifying convention. Under the...
A previous installment in this two-part series described the Supreme Court’s current interest in the law of Indian tribal sovereignty—that is, the law governing how federal, state, and tribal governments relate to each other. One result is the court’s 2020 decision...
Panic propaganda is a political tool designed to elicit an emotional response rather than a reasoned and factual one. Panic propaganda doesn’t have to be completely false, as a matter of fact, the best propaganda contains a very serious element of truth that is...
This is my second post looking at the constitutional aspects of the recently announced international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax (the first post is here). The first post concluded that the “agreement” in its current form (actually labeled...
Earlier I posted (here and here) some general thoughts about the idea of a global minimum corporate tax. Some objections have been raised to its constitutionality (see here from the Wall Street Journal editors). Having taken a closer look at the agreement (such as...