Originalism


Race and Liberty in America

My latest book review in THE NEW AMERICAN (of the Independent Institutes Jonathan Bean’s Race & Liberty in America) is online. I’d like to get feedback from you Tenthers out there on my discussion of the great Lysander Spooner’s questional...

18th Century Definitions: General Welfare

I was looking through a copy of Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” (published in 1755), and came across a few interesting definitions: General: 1. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special. 3. Not restrained by...

Constitutional Understanding

Writes an anonymous emailer: Who was the last Supreme (or even any law school student or even a professor) to read the Federalist – especially since 1929 ?? No doubt that there’s very little discussion about the Constitution in any way, and it’s...