The Constitution of American Colonialism
Vol. 137 No. 1
For my part I am not prepared for citizenship in the United States. I do not want it. . . . It takes greed of gain...
Legal History
Removal Rehashed
Response to The Executive Power of Removal
Vol. 136 No. 7
Introduction We are grateful to the Harvard Law Review Forum for the chance to respond in these pages to The Executive Power of Removal....
Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction What is the relationship between the Second Amendment right to bear arms and inequality? Scholarly silence suggests a conventional view that there is...
Parchment Rights
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...
Public Carry and Criminal Law after Bruen
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Gun rights supporters appear to be on the cusp of achieving a decades-long goal: defanging licensing laws nationwide for carrying handguns in public....
Price and Sovereignty
Vol. 135 No. 2
[W]e must not overlook the actual fact that dominion over things is also imperium over our fellow human beings. — Professor Morris R. Cohen,...
Blasphemy and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment
Vol. 135 No. 2
Until well into the twentieth century, American law recognized blasphemy as proscribable speech. The blackletter rule was clear. Constitutional liberty entailed a right to...
The Agreement and the Girmitiya
Vol. 134 No. 5
“What I want to say in this letter,” wrote the exasperated Viceroy of India in a telegram to the London-based Secretary of State for...
Turning Neighbors Into Nuisances
Vol. 134 No. 5
A reckoning for single-family zoning is underway. From Minnesota to California, cities and states are looking for ways to compel the densification of neighborhoods...
Legal Internalism In Modern Histories of Copyright
Vol. 134 No. 3
Legal internalism refers to the internal point of view that professional participants in a legal practice develop toward it. It represents a behavioral phenomenon...