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Mark Leibovich's This Town 25 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital, by Mark Leibovich I spent two years on Capitol Hill 1970-72 and witnessed the same kind of behavior pr...
Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments 14 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
Commentator Mark Levin has come out with a new book, The Liberty Amendments, in which he proposes ten constitutional amendments, and argues for an Article V constitutional convention as the way to get...
Metagaming for Constitutional Design 1 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
In game theory a metagame is a game about another game, generally with the objective of finding the best rules or design for that other game. For games like chess or go it is clear that the games did ...
Are private "grand juries" legal? 24 Jul 2013 | 06:26 pm
In another forum the question was raised by a lawyer: Where is the case law providing that a grand jury can be formed and do anything, other than get indicted, without it being summoned by the clerk ...
A comma would have helped 24 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
In another forum a participant asked the question: But isn't the central question ... whether even "law-trained persons" in 1776 shared a specific theory of capitalization, commas, or semicolons? Pe...
Make a difference! 24 Jul 2013 | 06:08 pm
When I founded the Constitution Society in 1994, and later set up its website, committed defenders of the Constitution, as originally meant and understood, were rare, and dismissed by most decisionmak...
Who coined the name "United States of America"? 24 Jul 2013 | 06:02 pm
In another forum a participant took the position that the authoritative version of the Declaration of Independence was not the one signed by the members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, bu...
Ratchet of rot 17 Jul 2013 | 03:25 am
With few exceptions, bad Supreme Court precedents seem to move government in only one direction — toward greater power over people — despite the lack of authority for that in the Constitution as origi...
Tsarnaev not guilty of federal charges 14 Jul 2013 | 11:10 pm
The Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with multiple federal offenses, but none of them are authorized by the U.S. Constitution for offenses committed on state territory, as the...
Diversity and representivity 9 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm
Some question has arisen concerning my proposals for selecting public officials using a multi-stage process of alternative sortition (random selection) and merit selection, similar to the Venetian mod...
