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5 Apr 2024, 10:57 am by Ibrain Hernández Rangel
Alexander Hamilton believed that we should give judges the final word on the meaning of the Constitution because, on the one hand, the president would say that everything he does is constitutional. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
” As University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck documented in his important 2023 book The Shadow Docket, in recent years the Supreme Court has been called upon to intervene—and has intervened—much more frequently than in the past in cases coming to it in an emergency posture (and thus has decided these cases without full briefing or oral argument, hence “shadow docket”). [read post]
3 Mar 2024, 12:24 pm by Josh Blackman
Response #5: Other Treasury Department rolls from the Early Republic did not address the Sinecure Clause Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and this staff prepared more than a few lists during Hamilton's tenure. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1812-1883, was an American politician who eventually served as the vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the 50th governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
At the very beginning of it all, in 1790, there was Virginia’s furious ‘memorial’ claiming the unconstitutionality of the Funding Act, which prompted Alexander Hamilton’s tremulous response: ‘This is the first symptom of a spirit which must either be killed or will kill the constitution of the United States. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 8:30 am by Guest Author
”[8] In Federalist 71, Alexander Hamilton argued that a key role of the Executive Branch is to make decisions carefully under pressure: to undertake “cool and sedate reflection. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 6:06 am by Alan Neff
As Alexander Hamilton famously remarked, the courts are the “least dangerous” branch, without money or military might to defend itself. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 7:01 am by Randy E. Barnett
West, The Political Theory of the American Founding (2017) 2016: Carson Holloway, Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Destroying the Founding? [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Mark Graber
  Stephen Elkins has long pointed out that functioning constitutional regimes consist of a set of values and ends, institutions designed to achieve those values and ends, and a people who share those ends and can operate the institutions in ways that achieve those ends. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, on the other hand, strongly supported it. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 6:15 am by Tess Graham
Assistance to Ukraineby Sarah Harrison (May 9, 2022) Articulating Arms Control Law in the EU’s Lethal Military Assistance to Ukraineby Tomas Hamilton (@tomhamilton) (March 30, 2022) Neutrality in Humanitarian Actions Means Talking to All Parties to a Conflictby Hajer Naili (@h_naili) (March 28, 2022) U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 7:27 am by jonathanturley
” In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton explained that lifetime tenure was to insulate the court from manipulation or influence: “In a monarchy it is an excellent barrier to the despotism of the prince; in a republic it is a no less excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 2:29 pm by Randy E. Barnett
West, The Political Theory of the American Founding (2017) 2016: Carson Holloway, Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Destroying the Founding? [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 11:16 am by Suzanna Sherry
Justice Stephen Breyer even quoted a couple of lines from the musical Hamilton. [read post]
6 Feb 2022, 4:48 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Alexander Hamilton said the same thing way back in 1788, in Federalist No. 69: "In the national government, if the Senate should be divided, no appointment could be made. [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Renee Lerner
The next post dives into Alexander Hamilton's critique of the civil jury and concern about constitutionalizing such a right. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Stephen Halbrook
" Alexander Hamilton was often "seen wandering through the woods of Harlem with a single-barrelled fowling-piece. [read post]