How Things Have Changed: Supreme Court Edition
12 quotes from four Supreme Court Justices nominated by Pres. George Washington – on property rights, federal power, resistance and more – show just how much things have changed. And not for the better. Path to Liberty: September 28, 2020...
Today in History: 11th Amendment Ratified
Today in 1795, the 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the necessary number of states. The move came after an intensely controversial opinion in the 1793 case of Chisholm v. Georgia, where the Jay Court suggested that the states had no...
The Jay Treaty in a Nutshell
John Jay returned from Britain in 1794, carrying with him treaty that normalized relations between the United States and its former mother country. He was greeted to a heroโs welcome by the Federalists, but was held in contempt by Republicans. The country became...