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4 Aug 2024, 6:30 am
” Pace William Riker—who (in)famously argued that, “if in the United States one disapproves of racism, one should disapprove of federalism”—LaCroix reveals how state power was wielded in service of abolition and Black freedom. [read post]
3 Aug 2024, 6:30 am
She does so by providing rich background context for a handful of important cases of the era, and detailed biographies of several key figures—particularly, under-studied people such as William Wirt and Maria Pinckney—whose ideas and advocacy played influential roles in important constitutional controversies. [read post]
31 Jul 2024, 9:44 am
Madison (1803), Chief Justice John Marshall famously said, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. [read post]
30 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
On February 7th, attorney general William Wirt argued in Gibbons that commerce was not merely “traffic” but “intercourse,” an elevated form of constitutive exchange that was necessary to tie the nation together and stave off civil war. [read post]
29 Jul 2024, 2:27 pm
William O. [read post]
29 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
From the neat civic square of the Cherokee Nation’s New Echota to Justice William Johnson Jr. [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
Consider, for instance, some of the similarities between Tucker and William Johnson, a key figure in The Interbellum Constitution. [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
Similarly, Justice William Johnson adhered to a “federalism of the tripartite contract” in the South Carolina federal circuit case, Elkins v. [read post]
24 Jul 2024, 2:45 pm
THE E. [read post]
24 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
At the same time, it’s a concerted effort to marry constitutional history from above and below—to place Supreme Court protagonists like John Marshall, William Wirt, and Joseph Story alongside constitutional outsiders like Maria Henrietta Pinckney, John Ross, and Sherman Booth. [read post]
24 Jul 2024, 6:27 am
Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in United States v. [read post]
19 Jul 2024, 6:00 am
In Maryland, William Paca proposed an amendment to the Constitution specifying that "Congress shall not impose direct taxes on land or other property. [read post]
11 Jul 2024, 7:32 am
Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. [read post]
10 Jul 2024, 9:01 pm
As Justice Thurgood Marshall put it decades later, “Congress painted with a broad brush,”[14] and its “purpose in enacting the securities laws was to regulate investments, in whatever form they are made and by whatever name they are called. [read post]
10 Jul 2024, 8:25 am
Update 7/10/2024: We received a report of another scam. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 1:07 pm
” Marshal Gail Curley bangs her gavel, the justices and the spectators rise, and another momentous term comes to an end. [read post]
30 Jun 2024, 1:07 pm
Liberal lions Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, and Thurgood Marshall dissented. [read post]
27 Jun 2024, 6:30 am
The evidence Graber has marshaled to demonstrate the predominance of congressional concern over the issues underlying sections 2, 3, and 4, and the relative lack of concern about section 1, is overwhelming. [read post]
24 Jun 2024, 5:10 pm
Shortly before KBJ was appointed, I listed the other Justices who shared a last name: Chief Justice John Marshall (1801-1835) and Justice Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991) Justice John Rutledge (1790-1791) and Justice Wiley Rutledge (1943-1949) Justice Thomas Johnson (1792-1793) and Justice William Johnson (1804-1834) Justice Samuel Chase (1796-1811) and Chief Justice Salmon Chase (1864-1873) Justice John Marshall Harlan I (1877-1911) and Justice John… [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 8:55 am
” Chief Justice John Marshall and others in the founding generation followed a third way, most prominently in United States v. [read post]
