Law & Liberty – Page 3

Constitutional Logic and State Sovereignty

The logic of the Constitution demands that states are not amenable to suits by other states without their consent.

Malcolm presents Benedict Arnold as deeply conflicted, but concludes that his turn was ideological, and rooted in his wounded sense of honor.

To preserve both the country and political philosophy, Jaffa returned to the beginning.

Most modern capitalist societies have both independent central banks and independent constitutional courts—and have them for similar reasons.

Greg Weiner returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss what it means to be an Old Whig.

Gregg Frazer restores the Loyalists as thoughtful participants in the debate over the American future. He also reproduces some of their blind spots.

In Gundy v. United States, the Supreme Court wasted the opportunity to restore the Constitution’s prohibition on delegation of legislative power.

Patriotism and economic liberty are not mutually exclusive. Commercial republicanism can unite them.

A recent plea for greater appreciation of European identity rings hollow.

The economy is one big pantomime, one where the tension between Apollonian and Dionysian forces never quite gets resolved.

Then as now, where people stood on history and how they understood their place in the flow of time shaped their actions.

Many in the Sixties Generation voted for Nixon; a surprising number weren’t demanding a presidential candidate who was “one of them.”