All Posts Tagged With: "congressional power"
Does Rape Violate the Commerce Clause?
Last spring the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a key section of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). That section allowed a victim of rape or other violence “motivated by gender” to sue the perpetrator for civil damages in federal court for violating her civil rights. The act was part of the [...]
1Oct2000 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedFrom Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role by Fareed Zakaria
Princeton University Press • 1998 • 199 pages • $29.95 Throughout history strong nations have often expanded beyond their borders, establishing military or trading outposts, exerting influence on other nations, and sometimes pushing out their own borders by subjugating neighboring peoples. The United States, which began as a union of 13 small states east of [...]
1Apr1999 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedUnrestrained Appetites, Unlimited Government
The federal government was supposed to be limited to a few defined powers. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution—“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”—confirms it. The federal government, of course, does not at [...]
1May1998 | Jeffrey R. Snyder | 6 comments | Continued-
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