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Introducing We the People, the blog carnival of the Constitution!This coming First Monday in October, Socratic Rhythm Method will be pleased to host the first edition of a new blog carnival, We the People -- the blog carnival of the Constitution. If you're interested in what the blogosphere is saying about constitutional issues, you know the best posts are...
September 17, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
A Constitution quiz you can useToday is Constitution Day, which we're celebrating tomorrow. I put off my shopping till the last minute, as usual. To celebrate the anniversary of the day the framers dotted the i's and crossed the t's, the Chronicle of Higher Education graced us with a quiz on the Constitution. There you'll...
September 17, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Pluto struck down as unconstitutionalEddie Izzard has a bit in his Dressed To Kill show where he lampoons the Episcopal Church. The subject of a sermon in this (as Izzard sees it) unserious church is an article in a fashion magazine. "The lipstick for this season will be in the frosted pink area, with...
August 29, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Original intent of the Fourth AmendmentProf. Kerr has a short post at VC reproducing the meat of an "originalist analysis of the Fourth Amendment" by a Thomas Y. Davies. Its gist is that the Fourth was intended to ban "general warrants" -- which would mean, as an aside (this is me now, not Davies) that...
August 20, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Ten things you may not have known about your ConstitutionHave you read the Constitution lately? Probably not, but that's fine. Unless your interest is purely academic, it doesn't really matter what the Constitution says anymore. Maybe you've noticed. But that's cynical, and our present interest is purely academic. Or maybe not. Some of the more inscrutable material in the...
August 18, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Shouting "freedom of speech" in a crowded blogosphereI was reminded of Dennis Rodman last night when I read this about tyrannical Michigan Supreme Court justices stifling the dissent of lawyer Geoffrey Fieger. Fieger called appeals court judges Nazis and and jackasses on the radio a couple times because they reversed a judgment favorable to his client. Back...
August 5, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Presidential signing statements I: Who does what to whomPart I Part II Part III An American Bar Association task force has a report out condemning the overuse of Presidential signing statements, those "interpretations" of new laws the President issues upon signing the bills, indicating how and whether he intends to enforce certain provisions. In one sense this is...
July 25, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
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