Constitutional Commentary

Volume 16

Vol. 16: Iss. 1

Alternative Maps for Navigating the First Amendment Maze

Nonjudicial Constitutional Interpretation, Authoritative Settlement, and a New Agenda for Research

Defunis, Defunct

Did Sir Edward Coke Mean What He Said?

The Trial of Charles I: A Sesquitricentennial Reflection

Commas, Constitutional Grammar, and the Straight-Face Test: What If Conan the Grammarian Were a Strict Textualist?

Pickup Basketball

Hey, Christians, Leave Your Kids Alone!

Vol. 16: Iss. 2

What If ... Buckley Were Overturned?

The Second Amendment in Historical Context

The Akhil Reed Amar Bill of Rights

Book Review of Presidential Defiance of "Unconstitutional" Laws: Reviving the Royal Prerogative

The Oxymoron Reconsidered: Myth and Reality in the Origins of Substantive Due Process

The Apparent Inevitability of Mixed Government

Book Review of Cardozo

Law and Sports Officiating: A Misunderstood and Justly Neglected Relationship

Suicide Pact: New Readings of the Second Amendment

Book Review of Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson

To Keep and Bear Arms in the Early Republic

Commonplace or Anachronism: The Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth About "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" and the Constitution's Impeachment Process

Vol. 16: Iss. 3

Would You, Could You, Change a Thing?

Two Phone Calls

The Trouble with Tarble's: An Excerpt from an Alternative Casebook

What the Wall Separates: A Debate on Thomas Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" Metaphor

Shocking the Conscience: Pragmatism, Moral Reasoning, and the Judiciary

The Variola Variation

If the States Had Been Sovereign

5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 175

So Help Me God: Religion and Presidential Oath-Taking

Midnight in the Courtroom of Good and Evil

Justice Without Justices

Farewell Madison Avenue

Civil Liberties During War: History's Institutional Lessons

The Remand that Made the Court Expand

Be Careful What You Wish For

The Future of an Illusion: Reconstituting Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Must Joe Robinson Die?: Reflections on the 'Success' of Court Packing

Terry v. Ohio in Hindsight: The Perils of Predicting the Past

Plus ça Change ... or If Hard Cases Make Bad Law, What Do Bad Cases Make?

Clear and Present Dangers: The Importance of Ideas and the Bowels in the Cosmos

The School Prayer Decisions

The Myth of Superiority