…federal courts, utterly uninterrupted for decades by the Supreme Court, in the service of (very) effectively removing constitutional mandates and proscriptions by state courts in civil and criminal litigation of…

…file lawsuits against corporations or local, state and federal-government entities, employees and officials, this crowd now routinely uses civil litigation in federal court to challenge the constitutionality of this or…

…beyond state-law criminal cases to a slew of types of state civil litigation, including child-custody or visitation rights, adult-guardianship and conservatorship, and professional licensure. In matters that are of profoundly…

…draft a Constitution and shortly afterward draft and ratify amendments, or fight a Civil War and, after you win, draft and ratify amendments reflecting the outcome of the war, if…

…Which makes us freer. Even when it means that state courts (in criminal and civil cases) and prosecutors are free to violate individuals’ constitutional rights. (Okay he didn’t say that…

…that they engaged in wholesale fabrications of jurisdictional, quasi-jurisdictional, and “immunity” doctrines, and the rewriting of procedural statutes (the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are statutes)–in an unremitting juggernaut to…

…the Industrial Revolution and urbanizationin the 19th century in Europe and the United States. It advocates civil liberties with a limited government under the rule of law, private property rights,…

…those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excludingIndians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. Thus from 1789 until the Civil War, the rural South was…

…Frontier and Great Society, which split the Dems a different way as the South did not like civil rights legislation. But people wore suits and thin ties rather than tie…

…guarantee lifetime employment — if demand for its product falls it will go bankrupt. GM offered only lifetime health insurance and ended up bankrupt. Civil service job security corresponds to…