Category: Common law rights

See Part I of Mr. Roots’ essay here. The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior By Roger Roots Nothing illustrates the modern disparity between …

Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States …

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. — …

By David Tulis The disaster of national economy that awaits us here in the hinterlands has its makings in ideas that are ultimately religious in nature. More immediately the …

By David Tulis I’ve spent a long time reading a book by a constitutional lawyer and defense advocate whose thesis in a 2011 book is that federal law has …

By David Tulis Once I made an effort to quit the newsroom and learn other parts of the newspaper business in which I’d worked two decades. In an interview …