While both the Heller majority and dissent erred in their analysis of the right to bear arms, the majority’s ultimate conclusion fits constitutional history. However, “the right to bear arms” does not mean having the right to bear arms in any way one chooses.
The poor should be welcomed in to the market, rather than ostracized by global business due to lack of purchasing power. By relying on charity and donations, impoverished countries are given an unsustainable resource for coping with the problems that result from poverty.
The crisis in Greece has raised old tensions and disagreements among European leaders, but hopefully the result will further strengthen, and perhaps even redefine, the EU. This situation sparked a debate among EU governments between the two unappealing choices: they could either bail out Greece, or let it drown amidst its rising interest payments—an option that might also imperil the other troubled Eurozone members, Spain and Portugal.
The Supreme Court itself has claimed on multiple occasions that James Madison’s strict understanding of the necessary and proper clause has been subsumed by Chief Justice John Marshall’s more permissive views. The quasi-monarchist Alexander Hamilton, not Thomas Jefferson, pervades the modern constitutional system. In reality, healthcare does not expand federal powers past any previous precedent.
Disruption of the trade has revealed a new issue: the dependence on the drug trade by many parts of the Mexican economy. In considering how to fight illicit drugs in Mexico, it is crucial to consider how a blow to drugs may damage other sectors and industries.
Lost in the celebration of last month’s health care legislation is the question: how did we get to a political environment where a historic bill would pass with literally zero Republican votes?
Professor Cohen latest book “Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals” is slated to come out during 2010. Cohen was mentored by ethicist John Rawls, who first proposed the “veil of ignorance” and “original position” as means of investigating justice.
