After rising to power in 1922, Mussolini’s Fascist police state eliminated virtually all constitutional and political restraints on his power. In 1935, Italy was declared a totalitarian state by the Doctrine of Fascism: “The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no ...
Description of constitutional theory; Concept of justification; Discussion about originalist and textualist theories.StraussDavidA.EBSCO_AspCalifornia Law ReviewStrauss, D. (1999). What is constitutional theory? California Law Review, 87, 581-592....
Sectionalism is the expression of loyalty or support for a particular region of one’s country, rather than to the country as a whole. In contrast to simple feelings of local pride, sectionalism arises from deeper cultural, economic, or political differences and can lead to violent civil strif...
Hindutva is the modernist consolidation phase in Hinduism, I view it as a necessary step. But in time I expect it will give way to the post-Modernist spiritualist Hindu phase time with urbanization and economic development. There is no ideological memeplex preventing reform in Hinduism...
Statist:“Yeah, that sounds good, but we have to have cops, military and who would build the roads? Some government is good, it just has to be constitutional. Without it the bad people would hurt the rest of us.” Then, if you start to offer solutions to their questions about how pe...
Isn’t our task the upholding of a Constitutional Republic? That is exactly the goal of the genuine conservative. But what we constantly hear from those who want us to swallow that they are really ‘conservatives’ is that times have changed and that we need to adjust to the new realities...
Anti-Trump plaintiffs have brought the insurrectionist clause argument to keep Trump off the ballot to courts in several states. The Colorado ruling does not apply to other states, though it could embolden others to take action. Colorado, which leans Democrat, is not a competitive state for Tr...
As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, scholars, and practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the Fourteenth Amendment, the...
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government. — ...
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Hugo Black was particularly noted for his originalist approach to constitutional interpretation. His belief that the text of the Constitution is definitive on any question requiring judicial interpretation gained Black a reputation as a “textualist” and as a ...