What could be worse than attributing a crime to John Marshall and his brother? Justifying it, which is in effect what this biographer does.
In spite of its best attempts, Mere Natural Law does not yet provide a framework for a conversation between originalism and natural law.
Charles Zug argues that demagogues are defined not by their moral character, but by political successes or failures.
For twenty-four years, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe strove to hold their party together and keep it true to its principles.
If the Court is not to function as a “bevy of Platonic Guardians,” its self-proclaimed power of judicial supremacy must be rejected.
The left’s hegemony in the legal academy is so total that opponents of originalism no longer feel it necessary to make an original (or convincing) case.
Jackson's supporters wanted him to be “a curative to the corrupt politics cankering Washington." In other words, he was sent there to drain the swamp.
Bushrod Washington may have been the most faithful conservator of the Constitution, and the soundest legal mind on the early Court.
Vermeule aims to justify the administrative state with History and the Common Good.
The "law of the sea," mostly remembered as a peripheral concern, was once a centerpiece of foreign policy.
The current Supreme Court, while superficially diverse in terms of race, sex, and ethnicity, displays remarkable homogeneity.
The Supreme Court has become far less interesting as it has become more standardized and winnowed.