Add to ORKGIn 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debate erupted between Federalists and Anti-federalists regarding each Article of the then-drafted Constitution. This Article analyzes the debate, and proposes that the key difference was the function of the role of the law
An overview of the reasons that the 1787 Constitution lacked the historical and legal assumptions th...
Using a blend of primary and secondary sources, this research paper examines the lesser-known newspa...
State constitutions written in 1776 were heavily indebted to the dominant Whig theories of politics....
In 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debat...
North Carolina’s first ratifying convention at Hillsborough left the state outside of the Union. The...
The Supreme Court of North Carolina is an anomaly among state courts in the antebellum years. In a p...
This Article explores the development of the political question doctrine in North Carolina jurisprud...
The present article focuses on the ratification debate in North Carolina. That debate is instructive...
North Carolina had never been a docile colony. She was rough-hewn, populated by ambitious men whose ...
This Article seeks to support that position with an argument in three parts. Part I describes the co...
The average American who thinks of our Federal Document only in terms of the Philadelphia Convention...
The thesis of the so-called economic interpretation of the Federal Constitution is the result of Cha...
This article is adapted from a talk Professor Larson gave at Pepperdine’s symposium on federal preem...
Tocqueville was the first to notice that political controversy in America tends to become legal cont...
This essay reconsiders the transformation of colonial constitutionalism to Constitutional Law. The t...
An overview of the reasons that the 1787 Constitution lacked the historical and legal assumptions th...
Using a blend of primary and secondary sources, this research paper examines the lesser-known newspa...
State constitutions written in 1776 were heavily indebted to the dominant Whig theories of politics....
In 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debat...
North Carolina’s first ratifying convention at Hillsborough left the state outside of the Union. The...
The Supreme Court of North Carolina is an anomaly among state courts in the antebellum years. In a p...
This Article explores the development of the political question doctrine in North Carolina jurisprud...
The present article focuses on the ratification debate in North Carolina. That debate is instructive...
North Carolina had never been a docile colony. She was rough-hewn, populated by ambitious men whose ...
This Article seeks to support that position with an argument in three parts. Part I describes the co...
The average American who thinks of our Federal Document only in terms of the Philadelphia Convention...
The thesis of the so-called economic interpretation of the Federal Constitution is the result of Cha...
This article is adapted from a talk Professor Larson gave at Pepperdine’s symposium on federal preem...
Tocqueville was the first to notice that political controversy in America tends to become legal cont...
This essay reconsiders the transformation of colonial constitutionalism to Constitutional Law. The t...
An overview of the reasons that the 1787 Constitution lacked the historical and legal assumptions th...
Using a blend of primary and secondary sources, this research paper examines the lesser-known newspa...
State constitutions written in 1776 were heavily indebted to the dominant Whig theories of politics....