Archive | Constitutional History
George Will on Rehabilitating Lochner
The rise and fall of the Second Amendment “collective right”
By David Kopel on September 5, 2011 3:38 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Guns, History, Militia, Supreme Court
The Tenth Amendment and Sovereignty
Jews, Labor Laws, and Poland before World War II
Complements to Rehabilitating Lochner
Ezell’s doctrinal rules for the Second Amendment
By David Kopel on July 8, 2011 2:08 am in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Guns, Originalism
Natelson’s reply to Time magazine’s essay on the Constitution
Gerber on Bernstein
A Nightmare Justice
The Incidental Unconstitutionality of the Individual Mandate
By David Kopel on June 24, 2011 7:44 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Health Care, Individual Mandate, Necessary and Proper, Originalism
More on the Thirteenth Amendment and the Definition of Involuntary Servitude
By Ilya Somin on June 21, 2011 6:40 pm in Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory
Mandatory Road Repair Work and the Thirteenth Amendment Ban on Involuntary Servitude
Republican presidential candidates pledge to appoint judges to overturn the unconstitutional anti-abortion law they will sign
By David Kopel on June 18, 2011 4:42 pm in Abortion, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Federalism, Fourteenth Amendment, Health Care, Individual Mandate, Judicial Nominations, Originalism, Supreme Court