Constitution

The Wall Street Journal Mocks Senator Rand Paul's Constitutional ConcernsBy Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.org | March 7, 2013When President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder channel the policies of George W. Bush they win plaudits from the Money Power and neocon Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. On March 6 Republican Rand Paul filibustered on the floor of the U.S. Senate against the confirmation of John O.

Rand Paul conducts filibuster in opposition to John Brennan, Obama’s drone policyBy Ed O’Keefe and Aaron Blake | Washington Post | March 6, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rand-paul-conducts-filibuster-in… of the oldest and most storied traditions of the Senate made a sudde

Back in 2008 I pointed out some problems with resorting to the courts of the central state to vindicate our rights, in the context of the Heller gun rights case. I argued that the Bill of Rights limits the power of the federal government. It was certainly not meant not empower the federal government via […]

In a comment to his post on Sarah Palin, Sheldon Richman writes: I don’t see that it’s obvious that the Supreme Court has been dishonest about the Constitution. It was written as a deliberately vague document designed to satisfy multiple interests. It’s very much an inkblot. Madison said it contained “few and defined” powers, yet […]

Heroic! Tea Partiers, Tenthers and Original Intent: Getting Back to the Real Constitution?, Kirkpatrick Sale, Counter.

David Boaz’s Cato@Liberty piece, Beyond Toleration: George Washington’s View of Liberty, praises Washington, and concludes: Let us continue to work toward George Washington’s dream of a world in which “every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.” I am not inclined to […]

From his post Against Libertarian Nostalgia (linked in Preference Falsification: A Case Study): I’m sure that David [Boaz] would be happy to add genocide against American Indians to the list of historical crimes that libertarians ought never forget.  But I wonder whether he’d join me in condemning the American Revolution itself as yet another unjust […]

On a couple of facebook discussions (here and here, if you are friends with the right people), several people had some interesting and vigorous discussion of David Boaz’s article Are Libertarians Anti-Government? An edited version of some of some of my comments is appended below: Boaz’s piece implies that libertarians are all minarchists. This is […]

see KOL 035 | Antiwar Interview: Federalism, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Sentimentalism, IP (2010)

From LRC, 2005: Re: Everything you need to know about Judge Alito — Or, Good and Bad Judicial Activism Posted by Stephan Kinsella on November 3, 2005 02:45 PM Peter–the Barnett quote in your post is apt. If “judicial restraint” means a Rooseveltian judicial deference to unconstitutional New Deal legislation, then judicial restraint is not […]