Slavery and the Electoral College: A Misguided Assumption
To come to Amar’s deductions on the Electoral College, one must actively ignore the entire breadth of the Philadelphia Convention debates and a battery of other contradictory evidence.
To come to Amar’s deductions on the Electoral College, one must actively ignore the entire breadth of the Philadelphia Convention debates and a battery of other contradictory evidence.
What does a political battle waged over a bank in 1791 mean for Americans living in 2016? Quite a lot, it turns out.
Territories and states are distinctly different entities, and the federal government was not intended to have the same regulatory power over regions within states themselves.
Whether the founders predicated their determination on the works of Vattel, Blackstone, or an alternative explanation cannot be determined with absolute certainty. The extent to which other scholars will admit this, in my eyes, is evidence of their intellectual honesty.