Commentary

Elected v. Appointed: Senators & the Seventeenth Amendment [POLICYbrief]

Todd Zywicki, Wendy Schiller

Short video featuring Wendy Schiller and Todd Zywicki

Prior to the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. senators were appointed by their state legislators...

Laboratories of Democracy - Part I: Early State Constitutions and Their Influence on the Legislative Branch

John Dinan, Mark Graber, Nathan Kaczmarek, Julie Silverbrook, Lynn Uzzell

Article I Initiative

On July 19, 2019, the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative cosponsored a two-part panel with...

Laboratories of Democracy - Part I: Early State Constitutions and Their Influence on the Legislative Branch

John Dinan, Mark Graber, Nathan Kaczmarek, Julie Silverbrook, Lynn Uzzell

Article I Initiative

On July 19, 2019, the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative cosponsored a two-part panel with...

Powers Reserved to the States

Robert G. Natelson

Below are the first three paragraphs to the newly published article in the Federalist Society...

A Covert Action: The Cold War Struggle in Poland

Karen J. Lugo

With the benefit of historical perspective and recently declassified documents, it is now possible to...

Executive Power & the Louisiana Purchase

John C. Yoo, Sanford V. Levinson, Robert S. McDonald

Documentary short from Motivo Media and FedSoc Films

When Napoleon Bonaparte offered to sell 827,000 square miles of land to the United States,...

1986 Introduction to the Federalist Society [Archive Collection]

Orrin Hatch, Antonin Scalia, Edwin Meese, Steven G. Calabresi, T. Kenneth Cribb, Stephen J. Markman, Theodore B. Olson, Charles J. Cooper, William Kristol, Michael Horowitz, Lee Liberman Otis, Ronald Reagan

Short video narrated by Orrin Hatch

Senator Orrin G. Hatch narrates the Federalist Society's video introduction to the public from 1986....

Was Friedrich Hayek an Originalist? [POLICYbrief]

Michael B. Rappaport

Short video featuring Michael Rappaport

Did Friedrich Hayek view the Constitution through the lens of originalism? Professor Michael Rappaport, Director...

John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court [POLICYbrief]

Richard Brookhiser

Short video featuring Richard Brookhiser

What impact did Chief Justice John Marshall have on the burgeoning Supreme Court in the...

Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den Inc. - Post-Decision

Thomas F. Gede

SCOTUScast featuring Tom Gede

On March 19, 2019, the Supreme Court decided Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar...