Sentences with phrase «wrote on the constitutional convention»

Adam White wrote on the Constitutional Convention's debate about Senate confirmations and allowing ambition to counteract ambition.

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The Constitution took only four months to write via the Constitutional Convention and was signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.