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19 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
With this definition before us, I’ll consider the two claims in turn.Defending MadisonAs is well known, Madison’s Virginia Resolution, along with the Kentucky Resolution ghost-written by Thomas Jefferson, became known as “the principles of ‘98” and were expressly relied upon by nullifiers and secessionists, and even by states’-rights advocates long after the Civil War. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  That suggestion was found in the far more hot-headed draft of the Kentucky Resolution prepared secretly by then-Vice President Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 2:30 pm by Josh Blackman
The post Justice Thomas's Dissent in Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County v. [read post]
4 Jun 2023, 12:16 pm by Ilya Somin
After that time, he was allied with Thomas Jefferson. * Context and language change. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 8:00 am by ernst
So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s cousin, Thomas Jefferson, for failing to free his own slaves. [read post]
30 May 2023, 12:04 pm by Tom Smith
In the case at issue, the leaders of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ—a highly selective public magnet school in Fairfax County, Virginia—bemoaned the demographic imbalance that resulted from the school’s academics-focused admission policies. [read post]
30 May 2023, 6:29 am by David Priess
David Priess chatted with Pluta about her favorite presidents and her assessment of the best communicators among them; the importance of presidents talking to the public; the precedents set by George Washington; the differences between history and political science; methodological challenges in historical research in political science; Thomas Jefferson's State of the Union delivery method; changes in the communication environment during the Andrew Jackson era; politics as… [read post]
26 May 2023, 10:08 am by David Kopel
[Building on what had come before, the Madison-Monroe research program led the way to the many innovations of the 19th century] During the 19th century, firearms improved more than in any other century. [read post]
The lawsuit began when the Board changed its admissions process to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in 2020. [read post]
23 May 2023, 5:15 pm by Howard Bashman
“Appeals court upholds Thomas Jefferson High School’s admission policy; Coalition for TJ parent group argued the revised policy discriminated against Asian American applicants”: Karina Elwood of The Washington Post has this report. [read post]
23 May 2023, 10:47 am by Eugene Volokh
The Sedition Act of 1798 famously expired on March 3, 1801, and purported to punish false and malicious statements about the Federalist President John Adams and the majority-Federalist Congress, not about the Democratic-Republican Vice-President Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Thomas Jefferson had well-founded doubts about the constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase that he endorsed. [read post]
12 May 2023, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
The principal thesis of Jeffery Toobin's excellent new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism is contained in the subtitle. [read post]
9 May 2023, 11:28 am
He graduated cum laude from Thomas Jefferson School of Law where he was on the mock trial competition team and earned his undergraduate degree from the Ohio State University. [read post]