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Post-Modern Federalism: SALT That Away

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It’s way too late to insist that our elected officials can’t just make up stuff. But there ought to remain a difference between a tweet and a federal lawsuit.

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To Restrain Populism, Revive Federalism

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We need a constitution that will bend to populist winds so that it will not break.

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 Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy

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Washington, DC - Jefferson Memorial
In Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America historian Kevin Gutzman examines the legacy of Jefferson.

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State Sovereign Immunity: Originalist Challenges and Will Baude’s New Article

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Will Baude's recent article provides new reasons to defend sovereign immunity, and he does so on originalist grounds.

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 Subsidiarity, Federalism, and the Role of the State

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“Local control” is not a panacea, and is not always consistent with constitutional design.

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A Limited Federal Government: Half Full or Half Empty?

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The Supreme Court’s doctrine of expansive federal power is much weaker than the original meaning of limited government.

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Republican Virtue, Interrupted: A Conversation with Frank Buckley

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Peace Monument, erected in 1877, Capitol Hill.
The real conflict in our politics centers on reforming massive levels of public corruption.

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“An indestructible Union composed of indestructible States?”

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How do we know our political existence to be a fact?

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Conservatives Should Not Lump Classical Liberals with Modern Liberals

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Caution Sign - Liberal America
It is modern liberalism, not classical liberalism, that blurs the distinction between the state and society, and that destroys ordered liberty.

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Is Liberty “Natural”?

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Our idea of liberty has simply become confused, even deranged.

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