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11 Dec 2020, 9:07 pm
While each State is sovereign in itself, it submits that sovereignty, through the Constitution to which it accedes, to the overall authority of the United States of America -- which includes its three branches of government. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 2:00 am
While each State is sovereign in itself, it submits that sovereignty, through the Constitution to which it accedes, to the overall authority of the United States of America -- which includes its three branches of government. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 10:35 pm by James Romoser
Madison (which established the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional) and Brown v. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
If we could put the whole American body politic behind such a veil and ask them to create a new mechanism for the selection of a president, would they not be driven to adopt the mode of election that most readers of this symposium likely prefer: a national popular vote, to be conducted in a single constituency (let’s call it the collective United States of America, as opposed to fifty electorally autonomous states and the District of Columbia), with a… [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Will he lead the “transformation” that the United States desperately needs? [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In addition to his many important decisions, Story’s three-volume Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States was and remains extremely influential.Neither Marshall nor Story is an uncomplicated hero, however. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 3:56 pm by David Kopel
As Barnett explains: Spooner supplemented this interpretive claim about original public meaning with a principle of construction he took from the 1805 Supreme Court case of United States v. [read post]
25 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
He says that Madison nowhere asserted that a single state had exit rights. [read post]
14 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
But Madison nowhere asserts that if the Constitution were approved based on the new theory of self-governance, a single state or even a few disgruntled states, can dissolve it.Indeed, Madison insists, in a letter dated January 1, 1833 to Alexander Rives, that “a rightful secession requires the consent of the others, or an abuse of the compact. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Whatever may have been his later views, the Madison of 1787 could easily join with Hamilton in a basic contempt for the actualities of state governance. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 6:00 am by Mark Graber
  Suppose, however, a state government proposes a constitutional amendment declaring that the United States is a Lutheran Commonwealth or proposes to overturn by all lawful means a judicial decision forbidding states from declaring the state is a Lutheran Commonwealth. [read post]