The purpose of liberal education is to illuminate how one ought to use the liberty you possess properly.
Paul Moreno
Grover Cleveland was honest and decent, and he believed that the Constitution limited the federal government to genuinely national objects.
Novak's New Democracy is a call for the administrative state to remake America in its own image.
These Progressive Era Republicans wanted to run the Federal government like a business.
Taney may well deserve to be “hooted down the page of history,” but it is unfair to take Marshall and Story with him.
The Supreme Court is still living off the moral capital acquired in Brown. This unpublished concurrence wouldn't have added much.
Paul D. Moreno holds the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History (2006) and The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism (2013), and How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy (2022).