In the course of my work examining the original meaning of the Second Amendment, I have often had cause to sift through some of the great legal textbooks of...
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Brigham discusses the exhibits and programming the society has planned for its 200th anniversary.
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On July 4, 1798, the United States Senate passed a sedition law that made it illegal to criticize the Federalist administration or their allies in Congress.
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In 1803, the great jurist St. George Tucker laid out clearly what the American public should expect to do if Congress “were to pass a law prohibiting any...
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The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king. It is, instead, a grant of authority from the sovereign people to establish a republican form of...
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Many scholars and judges today argue that the right way to ascertain the correct meaning of the Constitution's text is through a search for its “original”...
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In 1798 and 1799, several communities in eastern Pennsylvania mounted an armed challenge to federal taxation. The Fries Rebellion (pronounced “freeze”) was...
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William Rawle and Jamie Davidson were recently announced as the first two recipients of this scholarship during a special ceremony at the TAFE NSW Leeton...
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He was the well-educated and cultured US District Attorney for Pennsylvania and an early philanthropist. A devoted Quaker, he was co-founder and President of...
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A View of the Constitution of the United States of America, 2nd ed. Rawle, William. A View of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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