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16 Apr 2012, 4:00 am
According to this intolerant view, unorthodox opinions are not only false and offensive, but also inherently dangerous because they undermine established institutions and norms. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 7:58 am
It is idiotic, pure and simple, to continue with a system of representation that was rightly denounced in Philadelphia as "vicious" (by Rufus King of Massachusetts) and "evidently unjust" (by James Madison of Virginia). [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 6:00 am
For the Symposium on Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Belknap Press, 2018).No one in the future can be considered a literate commentator on the history of the Constitution and American constitutional development who has not carefully read and reflected on Jonathan Gienapp’s stunning book The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 12:00 pm
Here is James Madison making just that point in 1785: No citizen should be compelled to “contribute three pence only of his property for the support” of any religious establishment. [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 9:00 pm
In subverting the hard-fought legitimacy of that institution, the Court weakens its own power. [read post]
31 May 2017, 11:00 am
Wittes and Rauch cite James Madison on the importance of political elites as counterweights to populism. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 6:30 am
We are especially pleased to announce that the plenary speaker will be Professor James Jaffe of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who will give a lecture entitled ‘Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures: Arbitration in India under the Company Raj and After’. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 8:55 am
Ferguson is about constitutional theory as institutional design, about how government institutions can be structured in ways that minimize police violence and guarantee to the extent humanly feasible that the victims of police violence will be randomly selected. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 5:09 pm
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm,” James Madison wrote in one of the Federalist Papers during the debates over the ratification of the Constitution. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 10:15 am
In the spring of 1786, James Madison and James Monroe purchased nine hundred acres along the Mohawk River in upstate New York, near the site where the Treaty of Fort Stanwix was signed. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 2:32 pm
” James Madison shared that view: “[I]ndependent tribunals … will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the constitution. [read post]
31 Jan 2023, 12:20 pm
They include money for New College (which now has a new set of trustees with a gubernatorial mandate), new money for civics institutes that were inspired by the James Madison Program at Princeton, and $100 million for faculty retention and recruitment. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 3:30 am
In fact, during the revolutionary period many of the founders like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison were avowed legal cosmopolitans, curious to draw from foreign experiences for American republican institutions, including the example of China’s civil service system, national taxation structure, and methods of centralized resource management. [read post]
4 Jul 2011, 10:15 am
" Our Founding Fathers considered the right essential to the preservation of liberty in America: James Madison: "In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 12:00 pm
He is a recent graduate of James Madison University where he majored in International Affairs. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 6:54 am
(Read James Madison, Roger Williams, and all the rest.)blog advertising blog advertising [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 1:48 pm
The discussion will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, December 10, in the West Dining Room, located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. [read post]
26 Jul 2015, 7:30 am
On May 4, 2006, James Corey Miller was injured when he fell from a ladder. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 5:25 pm
’” James Madison similarly argued that the Clause was intended to protect the slave trade against limitation prior to 1808, and that its phrasing was due to “scruples against admitting the term ‘slaves’ into the Instrument. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 10:54 am
Madison. [read post]
