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11 Jun 2012, 3:00 am by Terry Hart
In the words of the US Copyright Clause’s author James Madison, “[t]he public good fully coincides … with the claims of individuals”6 — or, as Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante stated recently, copyright is ”for the author first and the nation second. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 5:03 pm
As with many issues, James Madison proposed a compromised which carried the day. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:35 pm by Eugene Volokh
James Madison wrote: ‘A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Renee Lerner
To avoid what he saw as a real danger of a second constitutional convention, James Madison drafted a series of amendments to the new Constitution that included a right to civil jury trial, in what became the Seventh Amendment. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 8:54 am by Terry Hart
Capitol building at the top of the Hill, the Library actually consists of three primary buildings: the original building (renamed the Thomas Jefferson Building in 1980), the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Building. [read post]
16 May 2019, 9:44 pm by Ilya Somin
As James Madison put it, "the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man. [read post]
2 Mar 2021, 10:38 am by Ilya Somin
As James Madison put it, "[t]he constitution supposes, what the History of all Gove[rmen]ts demonstrates, that the Ex[ecutive] is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 2:17 pm by Ilya Somin
” Many contend it required Congress to formally approve all uses of U.S. military force abroad, save, as James Madison said at the Convention, in situations needed to “repel sudden attack. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 2:43 pm by Eugene Volokh
To quote James Madison, sometimes “the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature” to do something is seen as “precluded ... by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 11:46 am by Roshonda Scipio
Connelly, Jr.Connelly, William F., 1951-Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010.Constitutional LawKF4749 .K365 2010To secure the liberty of the people : James Madison's Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court's interpretation / Eric T. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 7:12 am by Jeanine Cali
The program will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Montpelier Room, which is located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building at 101 Independence Ave. [read post]
3 Jan 2010, 6:28 am by thejaghunter
These are the concepts of people like Karl Marx, not Thomas Jefferson or James Madison and as such they are wholly anti-American and even unconstitutional. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 4:25 pm by admin
 James Madison, at the Constitutional Convention cautioned that “[a] standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 7:44 am by Stuart Buck
In dorm lounges and library basements around the country, small cells of 20-year-olds are analyzing why a company has succeeded or failed (Drexel University); team-writing 15-page digital marketing plans (James Madison University); or preparing 45-minute PowerPoint presentations on one of the three primary functions of management (Tulane University).The pedagogical theory is that managers need to function in groups, so a management education without such experiences would be like… [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 3:50 pm by Ilya Somin
People like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, and George Mason all owned slaves throughout most of their lives, even though they well knew it was wrong and a violation of their own principles…. [read post]