All Posts Tagged With: "necessary and proper clause"
Antifederalists Vindicated
If the Antifederalists were still on the scene today, they might be saying — as they would have been saying right along — “Told you so.”
21May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedApril Fool’s: Census Day
Did you mail your census form in? You can be fined up to $5,000 for not doing so and for refusing to cooperate when you are visited by a deputy of the U.S. government, who will come to your home to get the answers out of you if you happen to lose your form. Fined? [...]
1Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2008/5
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Regnery • 2007 • 258 pages • $19.95 paperback Reviewed by J. H. Huebert Conservative commentators often tell us that if only we would get back to the Constitution as it was understood, say, 100 years ago, all would be well with our [...]
1May2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedCapitalism and Democracy
I recently heard a prominent American politician tell how a “chill” went up his spine when he heard someone question the importance of democracy. How could anyone doubt the value of democracy? he wondered. Fortunately, he said, he soon realized that by “democracy” his (European) interlocutor really meant “capitalism.” Whew, he thought, that’s all right, [...]
1Nov2006 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Letters of Centinel: Attacks on the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1788 by Samuel Bryan edited and introduced by Warren Hope
Fifth Season Press • 1998 • 160 pages • $19.99 paperback Understanding the Antifederalist complaint against the Constitution requires a sympathetic ear and an active historical imagination. It is not easy for a generation taught to revere the Constitution as holy writ to recognize what the Antifederalists feared in the form and powers of the [...]
1Jan2000 | Richard M. Gamble | 24 comments | Continued-
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