Noble Sinners
The founders fell out among themselves, but would not hazard the Constitution in violent conflict.
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Articles by David F. Forte
Securing the Constitution and Union
Without Marshall, the judiciary would have been a withered branch.
Taking Law Seriously
A review of Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
May It Please the Court
The Closing of the Judicial Mind
A review of Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer, by Robert F. Nagel
and How Judges Think, by Richard A. Posner
Regime Change
Re-imagining the American founding to advance an ideological and political agenda.
The True Story of Marbury v. Madison
Why Chief Justice John Marshall was not a judicial activist.