Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral College: Electors’ Right to Vote Their Conscience
Independence Institute Court Brief Uphold’s Founders’ View of Electoral College When Colorado and Washington presidential electors refused to vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 election, state officials fined them, threatened them...
New Article Shows How 18th Century Law Helps Us Understand the Constitution
“Living Constitutionalists” and other opponents of constitutional government sometimes claim recovering the Constitution’s original meaning is impossible or impractical. One reason some of them think that is they they fail to take advantage of the hundreds of books...
Why Constitutional Commentators Need to Know Latin
I have previously blogged about the importance of competence in the Latin language as a tool in constitutional interpretation. This new article, published by a legal journal, the Federalist Society Review, explains the background in more detail. It ends with the...
