The Fraudulent Commerce Clause

At some point in every freedom-loving law student’s academic career comes a two-week period of outrage and bewilderment coinciding with lectures on the interstate commerce clause.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the constitution reads as follows:
“The Congress shall have Power …To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the […]

Not So Fast, Monopolistic Legal System

Here’s a good law review article on the “missing,” aka. “not ratified” thirteenth amendment. The proposed thirteenth amendment would have read:
“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or […]