…although the people challenging the constitutionality of the mandate don’t expressly say this, their “freedom” and “liberty” claim is really a claim that the mandate violates the Fifth Amendment’s due…

…Amendment precedents of the Supreme Court that count “money” as speech and thus consider that limitations on money spent to influence elections as a limitation on speech. Yet most economists…

…women in the work force, New York Times (Feb. 12, 2012). In contradistinction to the importance of individuals’ rights under the First Amendment, he seems to think that every religious…

…forced to pay the penalty for failing to buy medical insurance.) But there are exceptions, mainly in First Amendment cases—free speech, free assembly, free exercise of religion—and in certain other…

…designation through a floor amendment unless there is a supermajority 3/5 vote in favor of doing so (limiting debate to 1 hour)–thus one right-wing Senator intent on obstructionism can make…

…and the local law firm Todd & Weld, protestors have gone to court claiming that the First Amendment forbids police from evicting them or removing their tents. On Nov. 16,…

…are going to have to find a way to square the utter abandonment of the progressive income tax, a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, a return to explosively inflationary health-care…

by Mike Kimel The Effect of Individual Income Tax Rates on the Economy, Part 1: 1901 – 1928 In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution led to the income…

…per week to 60. The Court said the statute violated the ‘liberty’ guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause because it removed what the Court said was the constitutional…

…and partly because that doctrine itself violates the Fourteenth Amendment. On March 7, in an opinion called Skinner v. Switzer, the Supreme Court finally killed the doctrine, or tried to;…