Kevin R. C. Gutzman 
Kevin R. C. Gutzman is associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University. He is author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840, and, with Thomas E. Woods Jr., Who Killed the Constitution?: The Federal Government vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama.
Idiocracy
Bastille Day is BunkJul 14 2010 The American civil calendar is not alone in being festooned with holidays celebrating political factions and the central state. Most famously, perhaps, the chief French |
Law
They Really Meant ItSep 21 2009 [Editor’s note: see also rounds 1-3 of our debate on originalism, interpretation, and whether the Constitution actually means anything. Austin Bramwell, “Original Sins”; Kevin R. |
Law
The Genuine ArticleSep 08 2009 Austin Bramwell says that I argue, "the Constitution grants the Federal government [sic] a handful of limited powers, but leaves the states free to govern |
Law
Phony OriginalismAug 03 2009 Since the days of Ronald Reagan and Edmund Meese, the Republican Party's position has been that judges should be bound by the people's understanding of |
Law
The Frank Ricci IndecisionJul 07 2009 On Monday, June 29, 2009 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiffs, a group of white firefighters, in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. |
Love
When Tom Met SallyJun 29 2009 People often ask me how I can write about Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, Abraham Lincoln or the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution or the |
Guns
A Dubious VictoryApr 29 2009 With its decision in Nordyke v. King last week, in which the recent Supreme Court Heller decision was applied to state law, the Ninth U.S. |
Law
The Book of RuthApr 17 2009 Ohio State University's law school recently held a symposium marking Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fifteen years on the United States Supreme Court. Precisely why this milestone |
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Faith of Our FathersApr 13 2009 Were the Founders “Post-Christian”? Two years ago, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham published American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. There, |
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The Obamanoid ConstitutionMar 05 2009 The late, unlamented George W. Bush administration was a disaster for American constitutionalists. The second Bush insisted that he as president possessed inherent power to |
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The Birth of a Notion”National “Purpose”Jan 12 2009 Under discussion: Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, Thomas L. Krannawitter, Roman & Littlefield (2008), 376 pages Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch |
History
Too Early To TellDec 17 2008 In the latest issue of National Review, one finds a laudatory review of a new doorstop biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Among other things, the author |
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Bad Paper”How the Fed Bailed on the ConstitutionSep 29 2008 Since the Truman administration, Democrats have called for the nationalization of the health-care industry. The Democratic Party's position, stressed more strongly at some times than |
Conservatism
Farewell to the GipperSep 11 2008 Today's Republican Party is no longer the conservative party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It has morphed significantly in regard to the two main |
Law
Joe Biden’s ConstitutionAug 27 2008 As Tom Woods and I demonstrate in our new book, Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George |
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The Myth of the Conservative Legal MovementJul 14 2008 Under Consideration: Steven M. Teles, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law, Princeton University Press (2008), 358 pages. |
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Taking Back the Constitution”A Case for Impeaching George W. BushMar 21 2008 On Saturday, March 8, 2008, President George W. Bush vetoed a congressional bill that would have explicitly banned interrogation techniques like waterboarding. In doing so, |
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The U.S. Constitution is Not Democratic”and Why That’s a Good ThingFeb 21 2008 Sanford Levinson, Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It). Oxford University Press, 2006. Sanford Levinson |
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