Text vs. precedent in constitutional law.
Conservative constitutional law scholarship is divided into two camps. First, there are the originalists and textualists like myself, Randy Barnett, John Harrison, Gary Lawson, Judge Michael McConnell, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Saikrishna Prakash, and, at times, Akhil Amar. This camp believes that the text of the Constitution, as it was...

Constitutional law.
9780735573475 Constitutional law. Ed. by Joel Wm. Friedman. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2007 247 pages $29.95 Paperback Friedman's practice series KF4550 Designed as a study guide but also suitable as...

Constitutional law. 3d ed.
9780735573390 Constitutional law. 3d ed. Ed. by Neil C. Blond. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2007 471 pages $28.95 Paperback Blond's law guides KF4550 Part of a series of law school...

The founding fathers, pop culture, and constitutional law; who's your daddy?
9780754672456 The founding fathers, pop culture, and constitutional law; who's your daddy? Burgess, Susan. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2008 141 pages $89.95 Hardcover Law, justice, and power KF4575 From the...

FOF's James Dobson attacks secular laws as a 'fruitcake' interpretation of Constitution.
Religious Right honcho James C. Dobson says the idea that U.S. law must be secular is a "fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution." Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, launched into a tirade against secular government June 24, in the middle of an attack on Democratic presidential...

Meandering toward disaster: the perils of making a left-wing ideologue commander-in-chief.
ON the War on Terror, as with most issues, it can be difficult to understand Barack Obama's thinking if you listen only to his finely wrought speeches. But if you take the time to watch as Obama meanders toward a position, understanding him is easy. Case in...

Christian broadcasters nervous about talk of reviving Fairness Doctrine.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been making Christian broadcasters nervous. Pelosi (D., Calif.) said this summer that she supports resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine, a 1949 Federal Communications Commission policy that required broadcasters that communicated specific opinions to set aside time for opposing views. Such a...

Keeping an eye on the (Post-Bush): Faith-Based initiative.
ON JULY 1, 2008, presidential hopeful Barack Obama unveiled his plan for the revamping and retooling of the Faith-Based Initiative, that well-recognized but little-understood pet project of President George W. Bush. Coinciding with the release of a fact sheet by his campaign, Obama delivered a speech in Zanesville, Ohio,...

Let's get back to prevention.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against the District of Columbia's ban on personal handguns, perhaps the American Academy of Pediatrics can get back to promoting gun safety and other such preventive measures rather than the liberal political agenda that generally includes what is now apparently the unconstitutional...

Constitutional law for a changing America; institutional powers and constraints, 6th ed.
9781933116815 Constitutional law for a changing America; institutional powers and constraints, 6th ed. Epstein, Lee and Thomas G. Walker. CQ Press 2007 745 pages $67.95 Paperback KF4548 For this introductory casebook...