volokh.com - 12/23/2008
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Does the financial crisis discredit libertarianism? Ilya says no ; others say yes. The question is not a good one, however, because libertarianism, in any meaningful philosophical sense, hasn’t influenced financial policy in decades. One might as well ask whether the financial crisis has ...
volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Using Eminent Domain to Acquire Land for the
Flight 93 Memorial: Various readers have asked for my...
views on the federal government's possible plan to use eminent domain to acquire land for a memorial commemorating the heroes of Flight 93 , the plane ...
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volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Educated Judges are Better Judges: Josh Wright and
his co-authors find that federal judges are less likely...
to have their decisions in antitrust cases appealed if they have received training at the George Mason Law and Economics seminars, at least in ...
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volokh.com - 12/26/2008
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Happy Hanukkah From Israel!: The letters on the
dreidels spell "Happy Hanukkah" in Hebrew. Natalie is spinning...
a giant dreidel, and modeling a menorah hat. Sufganiot (Hanukkah donuts) are in the backdrop on the right.
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SOME INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS on St. George Tucker, Saul Cornell, and Justice Stevens….
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SOME INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS on St. George Tucker, Saul Cornell, and Justice Stevens.
"Unambiguously describing the Second Amendment as encompassing a personal right"
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... quoted was not from Tucker's description of the Second Amendment. The language was from Tucker's explanation of Article I's grant of militia powers to Congress. Tucker's description of the Second Amendment comes 20 pages later in the 1791-92 lecture notes, and is nearly a verbatim match with the text Tucker's 1803 book, unambiguously describing the Second Amendment as encompassing a personal right for a variety of purposes, not just for militia service. Whole thing here. Kopel's reason archive here. Brian Doherty on the story of D.C. ...
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