Author Archive | David Kopel
Recommendations for First Amendment textbook
Independence Institute brief on Medicaid mandate
By David Kopel on January 19, 2012 2:30 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Health Care, Spending Clause, Tenth Amendment
Mercedes-Benz: The car for people who admire mass-murdering racist totalitarian thugs
Bleg on 3-strikes laws
Are people with concealed handgun carry permits a menace to society?
Laws about gun ownership in early America
By David Kopel on December 9, 2011 2:23 am in Constitutional History, Election Law, Guns, History, Militia, Political Ignorance, Religion and the Law, Right to carry
How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution
The original meaning of the 14th Amendment regarding interracial marriage
By David Kopel on December 5, 2011 5:38 pm in Anti-Semitism, Congress, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Federalism, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, History, Racism, Supreme Court
Supreme Court: “Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.”
By David Kopel on December 1, 2011 5:54 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Health Care, Taxing and Spending Clause, Tenth Amendment
Defense bill will allow President to indefinitely detain American citizens
By David Kopel on November 30, 2011 4:11 pm in Counter-Terrorism Policy, Obama, Terrorism, War on Terror
60s sitcom themes: The hidden alien. The strange family that doesn’t know it is strange.
Why Yankee Doodle called it “macaroni”
Bleg: Recommended US history book for Con Law I?
Will the Necessary & Proper clause save Obamacare? Not if the Court follows McCulloch v. Maryland
By David Kopel on November 17, 2011 4:33 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Health Care, Necessary and Proper