The Constitution, Census and Citizenship
Late last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a challenge to a question that the Commerce Department announced it would add to the 2020 census. The census itself has been mandated by the Constitution to be taken every 10 years so that representation in the House of...
Lessons From Past Migrations
International migration is one of the most pervasive social phenomena of our times. According to recent UN estimates, as of 2017, there were almost 260 million migrants around the world. In the last five decades, the number of foreign born individuals living in the...
Our Free Speech Crisis
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could...
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ILLINOIS: Band with ‘Confederate’ in Name Dumped From Festival; Protests Planned CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois is at the center of a national conversation about the First Amendment after the country rock band Confederate Railroad was removed from...Obiter Dicta
I’ve always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More