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19 Aug 2014, 2:24 pm
For example, most historians agree that James Madison personally drafted the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, apparently without any assistance from others. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 7:58 am
"The dissenting Chief Justice said:"Today the court follows not James Madison -- for whom Wisconsin's capital city is named -- but rather Jim Crow -- the name typically used to refer to repressive laws used to restrict rights, including the right to vote, of African-Americans. [read post]
24 Jul 2014, 1:57 pm
BNY Mellon Wealth Management has promoted a company veteran to the position of market leader for the firm's New Jersey region.James Robertson will develop and execute the wealth manager's overall strategy in New Jersey, which is the fifth largest state in millionaire households, according to research firm Spectrum.Robertson will coordinate the day-to-day activities of New Jersey portfolio managers, wealth directors and private bankers and bolster the BNY Mellon brand throughout the region,… [read post]
20 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
James Madison proposed that Congress could impose an export tax, if a super-majority in Congress approved. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 10:40 am
So far did Americans go in this direction that when James Madison worried about the threat from legislative tyranny, he complained in Federalist 48 that the “founders of our republics” seem “never for a moment to have turned their eyes from the danger to liberty from the overgrown and all-grasping prerogative of an hereditary magistrate. [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 3:30 am
Ablavsky shows how concern over the problem of persistently hostile relations with Indians during the founding era informed James Madison’s and Alexander Hamilton’s competing Federalist arguments for a stronger central government. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Faced with this impressive history, Justice Breyer invoked a principle that was captured in a letter by James Madison, the Constitution’s principal author. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 12:11 pm
Contrary to James Madison’s expectations, federalism in the current era is unlikely to constrain the national government since states have incentives to support the expansion and centralization of power in Washington. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 3:17 pm
This month alone, there have been at least three fatal accidents involving truck driver fatigue in Austin, Texas, Marseilles, Illinois, and Madison County, Ohio, in addition to the Cranberry, New Jersey accident on the New Jersey Turnpike involving Mr. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 10:04 am
James Madison famously emphasized in Federalist 45 that the powers of the central government are to be “few and defined. [read post]
8 Jun 2014, 2:01 pm
In his post about Bond, Mark Tushnet writes: [T]his isn’t Justice Thomas’s problem but James Madison’s [but] Justice Thomas quotes Madison to the effect that treaty cannot “dismember the empire. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 11:10 am
This month we celebrate the one year anniversary of the launch of Founders Online – a tool for seamless searching across the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 12:39 pm
When James Madison introduced the Bill of Rights to the First Congress he stated that the courts — “independent tribunals of justice,” he called them — would “consider themselves … the guardians of those rights,” that they would serve as an “impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive” and that “they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly… [read post]
22 May 2014, 9:04 am
In James Madison’s notes on the Convention, which are famously incomplete, he devoted nearly 8000 words to debates over the Origination Clause. [read post]
21 May 2014, 9:26 pm
Busch and James R. [read post]
8 May 2014, 12:23 pm
This committee consisted of North Carolina representative Hugh Williamson, South Carolina representative Ralph Izard, and Viriginia representative James Madison, who would be the primary architect of the Constitution’s Copyright Clause. [read post]
1 May 2014, 9:05 am
(The amici were Eagle Forum, the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation, the Indianapolis Star, the Indiana Association Of Scholars, the Indiana Coalition for Open Government, the James Madison Center for Free Speech, Nuvo [Indy’s Alternative Voice], and Professors James W. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 6:59 am
In February the Yale Law Journal held a symposium on “The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution,” to mark the publication of Bruce Ackerman’s book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution: It was a terrific conference, and a fitting tribute to Professor Ackerman’s accomplishments. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 9:30 pm
Weeks, 297 U.S. 135 (1936), and Elgin, Joliet R. v. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 5:27 pm
Shortest was James Madison at 5'5".Maybe the Presidency is special because it is such an alpha-male role. [read post]
