Category Archives: constitution

look out, it’s loaded

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 13 by Anton

Dangerous metal object for all you subversives to carry in your pocket. (Link from Lenny Foner.)

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the 1787 game

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 10 by Anton

Eugene Volokh invites you to write the constitutional amendment of your dreams. (Do people on other shores play this game too?) Here’s mine.

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approval voting

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

L’affaire du Pen provides an occasion to trot out one of my hobbyhorses. If you mark your ballot as favoring more candidates than can be elected, your ballot will be discarded as ‘spoiled’. Why? What is illogical about saying, “I … Continue reading →

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“. . . unless it would inconvenience the Government.”

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 24 by Anton

CBSNews.com: Moussaoui said he has $30,000 and wants to hire a Muslim lawyer to act as an adviser — but cannot do so because the government has frozen his money. Precht said he knew of no case that would allow … Continue reading →

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the late unpleasantness

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 April 09 by Anton

Recent reading: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (Prima/Forum, 2002). Despite the title, this book is less about Lincoln himself than about his ambition, Republican policy in … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 22 by Anton

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Necessity is a dangerous plea for the privilege of power; especially when the sole judge of it is the power pretending it.

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what the Fourteenth doesn’t say

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 28 by Anton

Bill Quick comments: I wonder if these people have heard of the 14th Amendment? It extended the provisions in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the people of the individual states. Of course, that only happened in 1868, so … Continue reading →

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