federalism

Trump consiglieri Steve Bannon has been involved politically since 9-11, and is spectacularly successful.  But he only understands politics as an outsider, and he really doesn’t know squat about the…

If the House Republicans can’t repeal and replace Obamacare, what can they do?  Can they cut taxes, or increase the debt ceiling, or pass a budget?  And if they can’t…

Georgia attorney Dave Guldenschuh has emerged as a leading legal authority on Article V, and also gives periodic updates on the various Article V organizations.  Here’s his latest: “Enclosed is…

Stu McPhail of the BBA Task Force has delivered a rebuttal of a seriously muddled article in The New Yorker.  From Stu: “The March 13 issue of The New Yorker…

Back in 2011, I wrote a law review article discussing concerns that a limited convention for proposing amendments called under Article V could propose one or more amendments outside the…

Having reviewed the most prominent cases regarding the justiciability of Article V claims, today I will analyze how a court would approach the hypothetical lawsuit discussed in an earlier post.…

On the level of utility to practitioners, the Indiana opinion in a succinct 11 pages sets forth a concise taxonomy of pertinent preemption doctrines and collects relevant decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Courts of Appeals, and the higher courts of many States.

Everything in Washington, D.C. established to do X – ends up doing X, Y, Z, and triplets of every letter in the alphabet. This anti-federalism is fueled by several basic precepts. Of course DC wants as much power as it can grab. The more power it wields – the more it can lord over us and the more favors it can dole out. And the more coin it can spend – and the more coin it can justify taking from us.

Jindal has gone to war to oust the Common Core tests that not only represent but actually extend the hand of the federal government directly into classrooms.

Since the Internet itself has no one “location,” it would be difficult to create a simple set of tax rules for items bought and sold. Rather than make it complex and add to the mix of confusing tax policies that already dominate American life, we should continue to shop and sell unabridged from government interference.

Despite its deep effects on the character of our nation, conservatives and the general population often ignore what children are learning except when their own are in school, so I thank everyone reading this debate and my worthy, tenacious opponent, Mike Petrilli, for your time and attention. National Common Core testing and curriculum mandates are destructive, overall, but one good side-effect is creating the opportunity to discuss what children will learn, and why.

On Thursday, April 3, The Heartland Institute’s Author Series featured F.H. Buckley, author and foundation professor at George Mason University School of Law with his eye-opening, recently published book titled, “The Once and Future King: The Rise and Fall of Crown Government.” A citizen of Canada, Buckley will be sworn in as a U.S. citizen April 15.

A friend of The Heartland Institute has composed an interesting examination of how far we’ve come from the concept of federalism since the founding. His hook: medicinal marijuana … and…