Mar 17 2025 Topics Criminal Law & Procedure • Federal Courts • International & National Security Law Blog Post Article III and the Canal Zone District Court: What Does the Constitution Require of Territorial Courts? Zack Smith With President Donald Trump’s pledge to take back the Panama Canal, it’s worth looking back...
Mar 4 2025 Publication Federalist Society Review Applying the Founders' Originalism Robert G. Natelson The 1787 Federal Convention drafted, and the ratifiers approved, the United States Constitution under the...
Dec 17 2024 Topics Federal Courts • Litigation • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post Court Holds the Corporate Transparency Act Is Unconstitutional: A Victory for Limited Government and the Right to Privacy Devin Watkins Earlier this month, a federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement...
Sep 13 2024 Topics Federal Courts • Litigation • Professional Responsibility & Legal Education • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post Is the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional?: Government Appeals a District Court Ruling That Said “Yes,” With More Challenges In Progress John J. Park On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles Burke in the Northern District of Alabama held in...
Aug 12 2024 Publication Federalist Society Review Declaring Independence to Secure Integrity: The Supreme Court Justices' Code of Conduct Michael S. McGinniss [T]he judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; that it...
Feb 1 2024 Topics Founding Era & History • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post The Meaning of “Regulate Commerce” to the Constitution’s Ratifiers: An Update Robert G. Natelson Constitutional Background The constitutional justification for much of the federal regulatory and administrative apparatus rests...
Oct 20 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review The False Doctrine of Inherent Sovereign Authority Robert G. Natelson This essay examines the hypothesis that the federal government and its departments and officials hold...
Sep 5 2023 Topics Federalism • Fourteenth Amendment Blog Post Yes, Congress Has Constitutional Authority to Protect Unborn Children Robert P. George, Josh Craddock The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, holding that the Constitution...
Aug 17 2023 Topics Constitution • Federalism Blog Post A Federal Gestational Age Abortion Ban is the Wrong (and Unconstitutional) Hill for the Pro-Life Movement to Die On William Hodes In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decided in June 2022, the Supreme Court overruled...
Dec 15 2022 Publication Federalist Society Review The Meaning of "Regulate Commerce" to the Constitution's Ratifiers Robert G. Natelson I. Previous Scholarship[1] A. Views of “Commerce”: Traditional and “Mega” The Constitution grants Congress power...
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Article III and the Canal Zone District Court: What Does the Constitution Require of Territorial Courts?
With President Donald Trump’s pledge to take back the Panama Canal, it’s worth looking back...
Applying the Founders' Originalism
Robert G. Natelson
The 1787 Federal Convention drafted, and the ratifiers approved, the United States Constitution under the...
Topics
Court Holds the Corporate Transparency Act Is Unconstitutional: A Victory for Limited Government and the Right to Privacy
Earlier this month, a federal district court judge issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement...
Topics
Is the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional?: Government Appeals a District Court Ruling That Said “Yes,” With More Challenges In Progress
On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles Burke in the Northern District of Alabama held in...
Declaring Independence to Secure Integrity: The Supreme Court Justices' Code of Conduct
Michael S. McGinniss
[T]he judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power; that it...
Topics
The Meaning of “Regulate Commerce” to the Constitution’s Ratifiers: An Update
Constitutional Background The constitutional justification for much of the federal regulatory and administrative apparatus rests...
The False Doctrine of Inherent Sovereign Authority
Robert G. Natelson
This essay examines the hypothesis that the federal government and its departments and officials hold...
Topics
Yes, Congress Has Constitutional Authority to Protect Unborn Children
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, holding that the Constitution...
Topics
A Federal Gestational Age Abortion Ban is the Wrong (and Unconstitutional) Hill for the Pro-Life Movement to Die On
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decided in June 2022, the Supreme Court overruled...
The Meaning of "Regulate Commerce" to the Constitution's Ratifiers
Robert G. Natelson
I. Previous Scholarship[1] A. Views of “Commerce”: Traditional and “Mega” The Constitution grants Congress power...