Most “pro-2A” people treat the Second Amendment as if it were the ceiling of our rights.Lysander Spooner read it and laughed. To him it was the basement floor of a natural right that no government on…
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In the annals of Supreme Court history, few decisions have reshaped American liberty as profoundly as Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. That landmark ruling, penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy, declared same-sex marriage a fundamental right under…
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The forgotten American legal giant who said the people—and every oath-sworn official—have a duty to oppose disarmament laws that violate the Constitution. In 1803, St. George Tucker published the first major commentary on the brand-new U.S.…
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The doctrine of nullification, rooted in the writings of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson (particularly the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798), refers to the idea that states have a duty to resist and invalidate unconstitutional…
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