Ron Paul: Debt Ceiling Drama

by Ron Paul The debt ceiling debate is providing plenty of opportunity for political theater in Washington. Proponents of raising the debt ceiling are throwing around the usual scare tactics and misinformation in order to intimidate opponents into accepting more debt...

Reality Check for the Commerce Clause

From the Wall Street Journal: MISSOULA, Mont.—“With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state. Montana passed a law that tries to exempt the state from federal gun regulation. But the law...

What exactly is supreme?

St. George Tucker wrote the first extended, systematic commentary on the Constitution after ratification. View of the Constitution of the United States was published in 1803 and served as an important handbook for American law students, lawyers, judges,  jurists and...