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constitutional OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Tub to the Whale? Was the Second Amendment intended as a distraction ? Anew assault is underway on the palladium of our liberty, as the Second Amendment is...

Dis-United Kingdom? (June 2014)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Dis-United Kingdom? Scotland eyes the exit. What an opportunity for America is shaping up in the constitutional crisis in Britain, starting with the...

None to Make Them Afraid? (May 2014)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY None to Make Them Afraid? Washington weighed in on religious liberty. The justices of the Supreme Court have returned to chambers to make their decision in...

Holy Harpocrates! (April 2014)

Constitutional Opinions by SETH LIPSKY Holy Harpocrates! Justice Thomas's silence is a virtue. A STORY is TOLD about Robert L. Bartley, late editor of the Wall Street Journal, and his penchant...

Ghost of the Nauvoo (March 2014)

Constitutional Opinions by SETH LIPSKY Ghost of the Nauvoo WHAT MIGHT BE the chances that the fracas over gay marriage in Utah could result in war? Utah enacted its ban on same-sex marriage in...

Constitutional Opinions: Fire in the Jungle (January 2014)

Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Fire in the Jungle Which beliefs can we accommodate? One of the most memorable moments of my newspaper life was meeting an American GI named Glenn M....

Mighty Mandate (December 2013)

constitutional OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Mighty Mandate Judge Scheindlin stopped and frisked. For fans of blind justice few things are as exciting as the drama unfolding in the Second United...

Conventional Thinking (November 2013)

Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Conventional Thinking Politics 'have reached civil war levels'..." was the headline on the Drudge Report the other day. It linked to a story in National...

Ex Parte Scalia (October 2013)

Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Ex Parte Scalia Could California have 120 U.S. senators? If we constitutional fundamentalists ever triumph in the courts, the person to have whispering the...

Constitutional Opinions: Fed Up Yet? (September 2013)

Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Fed Up Yet? As summer becomes fall, we commence the 100th anniversary of that most glorious of all the violations of the United States Constitution, the...

Pillar to Post (July 2013)

Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Pillar to Post It looks like the drums are going to be beating over the summer for a special prosecutor to go after President Obama. The president is in...

Constitutional Opinions (June 2013)

Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Happy Fourth This is a moment to feature the Fourth Amendment. The thought occurred to me recently when the Drudge Report streamed the headline, "Rand...

Peace in Our Times? (May 2013)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Peace in Our Times? Sooner or later Congress is going to have to decide whether to declare peace. I’m not saying I’m for it, and I’m not saying I’m...

Constitutional Opinions (April 2013)

Constitutional Opinions by SETH LIPSKY The Grave Robber Your constitutional correspondent has rarely had such a fright, peering, as I was, from behind a sarcophagus in the Graveyard of the...

Null and Void? (March 2013)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Null and Void? "Be careful" a crony, Myron Magnet, fairly exclaimed when I mentioned to him, en passant at our club, that I was going to do a column on the...

Next at the Palladium (February 2013)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Next at the Palladium It looks like we are going to see this year a campaign to restrict the right of Americans to keep and bear arms. It is going to be...

Into the Wilderness (December 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Into the Wilderness by Seth Lipsky As republicans lick their wounds after the election just ended, the person of whom I find myself thinking is Robert Bartley. He was...

Al Gore's College Days (November 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Al Gore's College Days by Seth Lipsky The first thing i did when word came over the wires that Vice President Emeritus Albert Gore is calling for an end to the Electoral...

Wasting Paul Ryan? (October 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Wasting Paul Ryan? by Seth Lipsky Oh, no! what a waste!" called out my wife when I stuck my head into her study with the news that Governor Romney's choice for vice...

Beer On Tap (September 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Beer on Tap by Seth Lipsky THIS IS A DECIDEDLY MINORITY OPINION, but the case with the biggest potential impact before the federal courts this year is not the saga of...

Al-Megrahi in Hell (July 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Al-Megrahi in Hell by Seth Lipsky As Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi settles in on the far side of the river Styx, let us reflect on the scandal of his final years. It will always...

..And a Young Child Will Lead (June 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS ...And a Young Child Will Lead by Seth Lipsky The wolf will live with the sheep and the leopard will lie down with the kid; and a calf, a lion whelp and a fatling [will...

Mrs. Griswold's Ghost (May 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Mrs. Griswold's Ghost by Seth Lipsky It looks like the presidential election is going to be haunted by the ghost of Estelle Griswold. She was the director of Planned...

Constitutional Opinion: 'A Legal Backwater' (April 2012)

Constitutonal Opinions ‘A Legal Backwater’ by Seth Lipsky America is in danger “of becoming something of a legal backwater,” a justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby, is quoted...

WILLIAM JENNINGS OBAMA? (March 2012)

William Jennings Obama? by Seth Lipsky One of the big tests for the Republicans as the presidential race moves into high gear will be whether they can draw out into an open contest the...

Constitutional Opinions (February 2012)

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Madison vs. Obamacare by Seth Lipsky When the justices of the Supreme Court start preparing their decision in the challenge to Obamacare, they may yet have to get to...

Who'S Afraid Of America's Constitution? (March 2011)

Whose Afraid of Americas Constitution Anyone, it appears, who would be' driven up the wall by a reading of its enumerated powers By Seth Lipsky when historians look back on the predicament of...

An Editor as Framer (December 2009)

BOOKS IN REVIEW An Editor as Framer The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide By Seth Lipsky (basic books, 336 pages, $25.95) Reviewed by Jeremy Rabkin This is an improbable...

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