Originalism teaches only that the Constitution’s original meaning is fixed; meanwhile, of course, new applications of that meaning will arise with new developments and new technologies. Consider a few ...
Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.
I recently had the opportunity to review all 50 state constitutions and confirmed an important fact for the current capital gains income tax litigation. Although most state constitutions mention how ...
It may be a bit old-fashioned, but when I was growing up words mattered. We were taught how to spell and write (yes, with a pen and with a hand) and were instructed to march to the dictionary (it's a ...
The Constitution has been the glue holding the United States government together for more than 200 years. Al Aiken and other members of the Virginia Liberty Project believe that understanding the ...