“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Incorporation – the legal doctrine whereby the Supreme Court applies the Bill of Rights to the states, was not part of the original, legal meaning of the Constitution. Instead, it arose out of the 14th Amendment, and the court first started applying it...
Recently published, by Ilan Wurman (Arizona State): The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Here is the book description from Amazon: In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment, Ilan...
At Newsweek, John Eastman (Chapman): Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility. From the core of the argument: The language of Article II is that one must be a natural-born citizen [to be President]. The original Constitution did not define citizenship, but...
A legal doctrine first created out of thin air by judicial fiat went unchallenged – and the court did what it does so well, it eventually forced that same doctrine on all 50 states. Path to Liberty: June 17, 2020...
1. Harvard Professor Raoul Berger’s meticulously documented book, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, proves by means of thousands of quotes from the Congressional Debates, that the purpose of Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment was to...