The Coming Constitutional Debate
Proponents of a “living constitution” aim to transform our nation’s supreme law beyond recognition—and with a minimum of debate.
Read MoreStephen Markman | April 2010
Proponents of a “living constitution” aim to transform our nation’s supreme law beyond recognition—and with a minimum of debate.
Read MoreStephen Markman | August 2005
The United States has enjoyed unprecedented liberty, prosperity and stability, in large part because of its Constitution.
Read MoreJohn Steele Gordon | January 2022
What causes the price of money to fall? The answer is very simple: an increase in the supply of money relative to other goods and services. As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman explained, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”
Read MoreRoger Kimball | September 2021
Of course, it is absolutely critical to the Democratic Party narrative that the January 6 incident be made to seem as violent and crazed as possible. Hence the comparisons to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War. Only thus can pro-Trump Americans be excluded from “our democracy” by being branded as “domestic extremists” if not, indeed, “domestic terrorists.”
Read MoreMyron Magnet | September 2019
While the hallowed doctrine of stare decisis—the rule that judges are bound to respect precedent—certainly applies to the lower courts, Supreme Court justices owe fidelity to the Constitution alone, and if their predecessors have construed it erroneously, today’s justices must say so and overturn their decisions.
Read More