Richard Epstein responds to Levinson’s Jeffersonian Proposal
I have been asked for my response to Sanford Levinson’s plea for a Jeffersonian approach to constitutionalism that refuses to treat the document as the Ark of the Covenant and treats it as a social...
View ArticlePrecedent and the Health Care Decision
At the New Republic, Adrian Vermeule has an excellent essay on precedent. Vermeule makes the following points: 1. “Precedent has limited constraining force, especially in hard cases at the Supreme...
View ArticleLeftward Drift Makes It Harder for Republicans to Confirm a “Moderate”
Some have called on the President and the Senate Republicans to compromise on the replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia: The President should nominate a “moderate” candidate whom the Senate would then...
View ArticleLeftward Drift Makes It Harder for Republicans to Confirm a “Moderate”
Thomas Piketty speaking in Tokyo, Japan, January 29, 2015 (Image: Sho Tamura/AFLO/Alamy Live News)Some have called on the President and the Senate Republicans to compromise on the replacement for...
View ArticleRichard Epstein responds to Levinson’s Jeffersonian Proposal
I have been asked for my response to Sanford Levinson’s plea for a Jeffersonian approach to constitutionalism that refuses to treat the document as the Ark of the Covenant and treats it as a social...
View ArticlePrecedent and the Health Care Decision
At the New Republic, Adrian Vermeule has an excellent essay on precedent. Vermeule makes the following points: 1. “Precedent has limited constraining force, especially in hard cases at the Supreme...
View ArticleLeftward Drift Makes It Harder for Republicans to Confirm a “Moderate”
Some have called on the President and the Senate Republicans to compromise on the replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia: The President should nominate a “moderate” candidate whom the Senate would then...
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