Constitutional Commentary articles published before 2022.

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Submissions from 2007

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The Second Convention Movement, 1787-1789, Richard Labunski

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The Tensions of Constitutional Democracy, George Thomas

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Umpires at Bat: on Integration and Legitimation, Neil S. Siegel

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Underlying Principles, Randy E. Barnett

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Warren Court Precedents in the Rehnquist Court, Frank B. Cross, Thomas A. Smith, and Antonio Tomarchio

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When the Court Has a Party, How Many "Friends" Show Up? a Note on the Statistical Distribution of Amicus Brief Filings, Daniel A. Farber

Submissions from 2006

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Brother, Can You Paradigm?, Brannon P. Denning

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Compelled Speech, Larry Alexander

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Deduction, Legal Reasoning, and the Rule of Law, Spaak Torben

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Farewell to Social Nostalgia, Peter E. Quint

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Federalist No. 78 and Brutus' Neglected Thesis on Judicial Supremacy, Shlomo Slonim

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Fundamentally Wrong About Fundamental Rights, Adam Winkler

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Hamdan's Limits and the Military Commissions Act, Samuel Estreicher and Diarmuid O'Scannlain

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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Functional Case for Foreign Affairs Deference to the Executive Branch, Julian Ku and John Yoo

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Judicial Interpretive Finality and the Constitutional Text, John Harrison

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Justice Iredell, Choice of Law, and the Constitution: A Neglected Encounter, Michael G. Collins

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Mixed Motives: Regarding Race and Racial Fortuity, Kathleen A. Bergin

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"Modest Expectations"?: Civic Unity, Religious Pluralism, and Conscience, Richard W. Garnett

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Originalism as a Legal Enterprise, Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman

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Presidential Signing Statements and Executive Power, Curtis A. Bradley and Eric A. Posner

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Taxes, Conscience, and the Constitution, Steven D. Smith

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The Constitution and the Annexation of Texas, Earl M. Maltz

Submissions from 2005

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A Criminal Procedure Regime Based on Instrumental Values, Tracey Maclin

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Congress Clears Its Throat, Edward A. Hartnett

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Constitutional Contortion? Making Unfettered War Powers Compatible with Limited Government, Gordon Silverstein

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Federal Marriage Amendment: A Letter to the President, Tracy A. Thomas

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Family Conflict and Family Privacy: The Constitutional Violation in Terri Schiavo's Death, Robert A. Burt

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Fig Leaf Federalism and Tenth Amendment Exceptionalism, Nelson Lund

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From Cruzan to Schiavo: Similar Bedfellows in Fact and at Law, Edward J. Larson

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Judging the Schiavo Case, Samuel R. Bagenstos

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Killing Terri Schiavo, Michael Stokes Paulsen

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Let's Call the Whole Thing Off?, Keith E. Whittington

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Originalism, Precedent, and Candor, David A. Strauss

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Originalism, Stare Decisis and the Promotion of Judicial Restraint, Thomas W. Merrill

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Protecting Unconscious, Medically- Dependent Persons After Wendland & Schiavo, Clarke D. Forsythe

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Revenge of the Triple Negative: A Note on the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon, Clyde Spillenger

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Schiavo and Klein, Evan Caminker

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Terri Schiavo: A Right to Life Denied or a Right to Die Honored?, Robert P. George

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Text, Precedent, and the Constitution: Some Originalist and Normative Arguments for Overruling Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Steven G. Calabresi

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The Constitutionality of States Extending Personhood to the Unborn, Alec Walen

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The Contagion of Constitutional Avoidance, Scott E. Gant

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The Dubious Enumerated Power Doctrine, Calvin H. Johnson

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The Intrinsically Corrupting Influence of Precedent, Michael Stokes Paulsen

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The Protestant Revolutions and Western Law, William B. Ewald

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The (Surprising) Truth About Schiavo: A Defeat for the Cause of Autonomy, O. Carter Snead

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The (Surprising) Truth About Schiavo: A Defeat for the Cause of Autonomy, O. Carter Snead

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Trumping Precedent with Original Meaning: Not as Radical as It Sounds, Randy E. Barnett

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Undue Process: Congressional Referral and Judicial Resistance in the Schiavo Controversy, Adam M. Samaha

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When Government Must Pay: Compensating Rights and the Constitution, Kenneth Agran

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Whose America?, Judith T. Younger

Submissions from 2004

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Affirmative Refraction: Grutter v. Bollinger Through the Lens of the Case of the Speluncean Explorers, Paul L. Caron and Rafael Gely

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After Grutter v. Bollinger: Revisiting the Desegregation Era from the Perspective of the Post-Desegregation Era, Kevin D. Brown

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Being Proportional About Proportionality, Vicki C. Jackson

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Book Review of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, Michael Kent Curtis

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Constitutional Law as "Normal Science", Toni M. Massaro

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Democracy as Civic Conversation, Louis R. Cohen

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English Constitutionalism Circa 2005, or, Some Funny Things Happened After the Revolution, Ernest A. Young

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Fixing the Constitutional Absurdity of the Apportionment of Direct Tax, Calvin H. Johnson

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Grutter or Otherwise: Racial Preferences and Higher Education, Larry Alexander and Maimon Schwarzschild

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In Defense of Deference, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer and Guy-Uriel E. Charles

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International Human Rights Law Perspective on Grutter and Gratz, David Weissbrodt

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Interpreting the Sixteenth Amendment (By Way of the Direct-Tax Clauses), Erik M. Jensen

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Jim Crow's Long Goodbye, Gabriel J. Chin

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Progressive Political Theory and Separation of Powers on the Burger and Rehnquist Courts, Eric R. Claeys

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Racial Integration as a Compelling Interest, Elizabeth S. Anderson

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Resolving Political Questions into Judicial Questions: Tocqueville's Thesis Revisited, Mark A. Graber

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Reynolds v. United States: The Historical Construction of Constitutional Reality, Donald L. Drakeman

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Secrecy and Dishonesty: The Supreme Court, Racial Preferences, and Higher Education, Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom

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Shards of Citizenship, Shards of Sovereignty: on the Continued Usefulness of an Old Vocabulary, Sanford Levinson

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(So) What If It's All Just Rhetoric?, David McGowan

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Tacking Left: A Radical Critique of Grutter, Daria Roithmayr

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Tahoe's Requiem: The Death of the Scalian View of Property and Justice, Laura S. Underkuffler

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The Conceptual Jurisprudence of the German Constitution, William Ewald

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The Constitutionality of the Filibuster, Michael J. Gerhardt

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The Dark Side of Grutter, Girardeau A. Spann

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The Last Twenty Five Years of Affirmative Action?, Kevin R. Johnson

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The Political Battle for the Constitution, H. W. Perry and L. A. Scot Powe

Submissions from 2003

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American Democracy: A Model Oxymoron or Who Knew the Constitution Enshrined Affirmative Action for States?, Miranda Oshige McGowan

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Constitutional Rules, Constitutional Standards, and Constitutional Settlement: Marbury v. Madison and the Case for Judicial Supremacy, Larry Alexander

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Decentralizing Constitutional Provisions Versus Judicial Oligarchy: A Reply to Professor Koppelman, John O. McGinnis

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Homage to Clio: The Historical Continuity from the Articles of Confederation into the Constitution, Calvin H. Johnson

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How "Decentralization" Rationalizes Oligarchy: John McGinnis and the Rehnquist Court, Andrew Koppelman

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How Many Spouses Does the Constitution Allow One to Have?, David R. Dow and Jose I. Maldonado Jr.

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Interpretative Equality as a Structural Imperative (Or "Pucker Up and Settle This!"), Gary Lawson

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Judicial Sovereignty: The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court, E. Thomas Sullivan

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Judicial Supremacy and Its Discontents, Dale Carpenter

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Marbury and the Retreat from Judicial Supremacy, Larry D. Kramer

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Marbury's Wrongness, Michael Stokes Paulsen

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Mother May I? Imposing Mandatory Prospective Rules of Statutory Interpretation, Larry Alexander and Saikrishna Prakash

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Not the King's Bench, Edward A. Hartnett

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On the Waterfront: Cheese-Eating, Huac, and the First Amendment, Jeffrey M. Shaman

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Recess Appointments and an Independent Judiciary, William Ty Mayton

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Searching for the Peaceable Kingdom, Mark D. Rosen

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"Sir, Yes, Sir!": The Courts, Congress, and Structural Injunctions, Mark Tushnet

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Telling Stories for Liberty, David McGowan

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The Court and the Empire, Michael Kent Curtis

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The Dimension of the Supreme Court, Paul H. Edelman

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The Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, Shlomo Slonim

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The Importance of Being Final, Daniel A. Farber

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The Lame Ducks of Marbury, John Copeland Nagle