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12 Jun 2009, 3:09 pm
But philosophically, for Justices like Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy and Roberts, should the issue be so easy? [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm by Guest Author
In 1816, Thomas Jefferson called on Americans to “crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of their country. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 9:38 am by Juan C. Antúnez
Not surprisingly, it’s a question that really smart people have ruminated on for a long time, including none other than Thomas Jefferson, who in a letter to James Madison wrote: The earth belongs in usufruct to the living; the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 2:09 pm by admin
  Ever since the United States Supreme Court decided Daubert v. [read post]
26 Feb 2023, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
Another early use of the phrase "public reason" is found in Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address: [I]t is proper that you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration . . . . [read post]
22 Aug 2010, 12:34 pm by Lawrence Solum
Another early use of the phrase "public reason" is found in Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address:[I]t is proper that you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration . . . . [read post]
6 Jan 2008, 6:34 pm
For example, the phrase "public reason" is found in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. [read post]
2 May 2018, 2:15 pm by Steve Vladeck, Benjamin Wittes
Although Thomas Jefferson apparently thought otherwise, Chief Justice Marshall, when presiding in the treason trial of Aaron Burr, ruled that a subpoena duces tecum could be directed the President. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Stephen Halbrook
Thomas Jefferson advised his nephew to "[l]et your gun . . . be the constant companion of your walks. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 6:20 am by Robert A. Levy
  Thomas Jefferson established that principle in the Declaration:  “[T]o secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men. [read post]
15 May 2012, 5:58 am by Ken Kersch
Thomas Jefferson), secession, the legitimate uses of the veto power, the death penalty (Benjamin Rush), the military draft (Daniel Webster v. [read post]