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1 Nov 2022, 10:23 am
[Professors Miller and Tucker miss the mark, while Saul Cornell disdains accuracy] An article by Duke law professor Darrell A.H. [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 1:01 am
The sculpture features the 60-foot heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 9:05 am
Although the pernicious racial quotas in Hartford are no longer in effect, high schools such as Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech in New York City and Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia reduced admissions standards designed to ensure that enrollees will succeed in the famously competitive environment at those schools. [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 5:00 am
As Thomas Jefferson declared, “it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 4:32 pm
‘The Jeffersons’ was about a prospering African American family who lived on the East Side. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 6:21 am
Justice Thomas later cited Mr. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 11:30 am
This holistic and longitudinal approach enables him to trace in detail the evolving constitutional views of America’s leading Founders—John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall, and George Washington—and the personal relationships among those men that helped shape those views. [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 3:00 am
And if taxes had been front-of-mind, it seems likely that Thomas Jefferson would have placed the complaint at the beginning or the end of the list, not buried in the middle at #17.Again, the founding generation was not anti-tax. [read post]
2 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
Indeed, the document at that point begins to read more like a legal indictment than anything else, and for good reason: many of the most important founders—and most particularly Thomas Jefferson—were lawyers. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 11:05 am
As James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," Thomas Jefferson, and other key Founders argued, the text and original understanding of the Constitution did not give the federal government any general power to restrict immigration. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 1:24 pm
Edward K. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 8:55 pm
The definition of direct tax was left deliberately vague at the Constitutional Convention, and consequently its meaning has been shaped through battles between the opposing political philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
Anyone reading Federalist 1 might be forgiven for thinking that it was written by Thomas Jefferson (and not Alexander Hamilton) inasmuch as it is suffused with a faith in “the people” and their capacity for disciplined “reflection” and then wise “choice. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
~Thomas Jefferson, 1789 To underscore these points, the Framers provided in Article V, not just one but two methods (and four paths) for amendment. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 6:00 am
At the start of the 19th century, the newly minted nation was deeply divided between Federalists aligned with John Adams and Democratic-Republicans aligned with Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 10:14 am
Americans grow up (or used to grow up) reading about the “long train of abuses and usurpations” that Thomas Jefferson set forth against George III in the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 1:01 am
” Thomas Jefferson as a young man What about if subsequent generations had the power of repeal? [read post]
5 Sep 2022, 8:55 am
That does not mean that executory laws are 'necessary' only if 'indispensable', as the State of Maryland, echoing Thomas Jefferson, argued in McCulloch. [read post]
3 Sep 2022, 11:47 am
Thomas Jefferson, in an 1815 letter, likewise spoke of America's success in the War of 1812 as an example of the excellence of a representative democracy [referring to the U.S.] compared with the misrule of Kings. [read post]
1 Sep 2022, 4:15 am
[Thanks to Thomas Rutledge for the lead.] [read post]
