Originalism on the Web
Michael Ramsey
Adam Winkler: The Secret History of Guns.
Originalism on the Web
Michael Ramsey
At City Journal, Gerald J. Russello reviews Constitutional Originalism: A Debate by Robert W. Bennett and Lawrence B. Solum.
Originalism on the Web
Michael Ramsey
William Hogeland: The Founding Fathers would have hated the debt ceiling.
Originalism on the Web
Michael Ramsey
Garrett Epps: Constitutional Myth #10: International Law is a Threat to the Constitution. Professor Epps is a fine scholar and a creative thinker, but his principal argument here confuses two points that ought to be kept separate. It’s true, as he says, that founding-era Americans had an attachment to international law (what they called the […]
Symposium on Jack Balkin’s Constitutional Redemption
Michael Ramsey
The Concurring Opinions blog has an on-line symposium on Jack Balkin's important book Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World. Of particular note is Mark Graber's contribution, Originalism as History and Story-Telling.
Simon Lazarus: Hertz or Avis? Progressives’ Quest to Reclaim the Constitution and the Courts
Michael Ramsey
Simon Lazarus (National Senior Citizens Law Center) has posted Hertz or Avis? Progressives' Quest to Reclaim the Constitution and the Courts (Ohio State Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article expands on a presentation to an April 15, 2011 symposium of the Ohio State Law Journal on Progressive Constitutionalsm. It is […]
Vinicius Marinho: Constitutional Prophecy
Michael Ramsey
Vinicius Marinho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – Faculdade Nacional de Direito) has posted Constitutional Prophecy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Stories and history talk to people and to each other. Stories have the power to change history’s trajectory and contrariwise because they articulate people’s self through faith and fidelity. Faith in […]
Charles Rhodes: What Conservative Constitutional Revolution?
Michael Ramsey
Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes IV (South Texas College of Law) has posted What Conservative Constitutional Revolution? Moderating Five Degrees of Judicial Conservatism after Six Years of the Roberts Court (Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 1, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article separates the facts from the hyperbole regarding the constitutional decisionmaking […]
Originalism on the Web
Michael Ramsey
George Thomas reviews The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause by Gary Lawson, Geoffrey P. Miller, Robert G. Natelson, and Guy I. Seidman.
Originalism on the Web
Michael Ramsey
Philip Shadd reviews Keeping Faith with the Constitution by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher H. Schroeder.