People without college degrees, or even high school diplomas, appear to understand property rights. Why can’t law school professors? Evidence of the former can be found trend can be found in the number of signs…
Topic: U.S. Constitution
Professor: The ‘Government does not do a Good Job of what it should be doing’
The government is not doing a good job at its main responsibility of representing the people, said a college professor from Hillsdale College.
Student Sues Community College for Stopping Him from Passing out Spanish Language Constitutions
Per The College Fix, a college student is suing the Los Angeles-area Pierce College for preventing him from passing out Spanish-language copies of the U.S. Constitution a week before the general election: Los Angeles Pierce…
Scholar: America’s Constitution isn’t about “Inventing New Rights”
Don’t expect the Senate hearings on prospective Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to get into the question of natural law, not because it isn’t worth it but because it is. Really relevant questions are anathema…
Democrats Unhappy with Trump’s Education Pick on Views on Due Process
From The College Fix: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is being declared unfit to serve not for her best-known cause – K-12 reform and school choice – but because the…
Abandoning Defensive Crouch Conservative Constitutionalism
Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law wrote a great piece on conservatives going full-throttle, with Constitution in hand, under the Trump administration: Yes, despite current complaints about supposed Republican obstruction of Obama administration judicial appointees, Hans…
Syracuse University Asks for Public Comment on Revising Free Speech Policies
From Campus Reform: Syracuse University, a school criticized for having one of the most aggressive policies against free speech on campus, is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to these policies. “As part of an…
Writer: Obama has Expanded Unchecked Government Power
Our friend George Leef with the insightful read on expanding government power under Barack Obama: We face, as the book’s subtitle puts it, the unchecked expansion of the state. That unchecked power did not begin…
The Left’s All-Out Assault on the First Amendment
The Left wants to silence opposition: The Constitution has long been subject to attacks from individuals hostile to its guarantees of freedom, economic opportunity, and limited government, but in recent days no other provision has…
When to Take the Fifth (Amendment)
The Fifth Amendment may be the Left’s favorite entry on the Bill of Rights but a relatively conservative law professor makes a pretty persuasive case that it should be more universally embraced. “The use of…