Constitution

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Is It Crazy to Call Californians Irrational?

The weak case against gay marriage

Jacob Sullum | 8.11.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Constitutional Challenge to State-Backed Tobacco Cartel Rejected

Jacob Sullum | 8.10.2010 4:35 PM

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Overreaching on Gay Marriage

Voters should decide the future of same-sex marriage-not federal judges.

Steve Chapman | 8.9.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Did Vaughn Walker Transform the Right to Marry?

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2010 7:01 PM

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Prop. 8 Supporters: We Don't Need Evidence

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2010 6:13 PM

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California's Gay Marriage Ban Overturned

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2010 5:02 PM

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Newt Gingrich on Intolerable Religious Freedom

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2010 2:53 PM

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Reason.tv: Why Have Cameras Been in Katie Couric's Colon But Not The Supreme Court?

Reason Staff | 8.4.2010 10:30 AM

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The Spanish Prisoner

The unequal burdens of Arizona's immigration law

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

ObamaCare: Unprecedented and Unconstitutional?

Damon Root | 8.3.2010 2:15 PM

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The Persecution of Gilbert Arenas

How gun prohibitionists and an image-conscious NBA scapegoated a basketball star

Daniel Wattenberg | 8.3.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Reasoners on the Tube: Nick Gillespie Debates AZ's Immigration Law With Its Author on Stossel

Reason Staff | 7.28.2010 9:21 AM

Politics

"If you're talking about the regulation of economic activity, the presumption of constitutionality is for all practical purposes irrebuttable"

Damon Root | 7.26.2010 12:35 PM

Politics

Mandatory Nonsense

Peter Suderman | 7.23.2010 11:34 AM

Politics

"Liberals have every bit as much reason as conservatives to worry about the expansive interpretation of the commerce clause"

Damon Root | 7.22.2010 12:15 PM

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Bono and Buttman

If indecency is unconstitutionally vague, why isn't obscenity?

Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Can Unanimous Senate Approval of a Bill With a Lame Name Possibly Be a Good Thing?

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2010 1:44 PM

Politics

Is John Stagliano's Victory a First Amendment Victory?

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2010 12:03 PM

Politics

Commerce Clause, Tax Power, Whatever—Trust Us, We Have the Authority

Damon Root | 7.19.2010 9:43 AM

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Who's Afraid of Federalism?

Gay marriage and the 10th Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 7.14.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Connecticut's Matching Funds Struck Down

Jacob Sullum | 7.13.2010 6:48 PM

Politics

Today the Indecency Rules, Tomorrow Pacifica

Jacob Sullum | 7.13.2010 4:25 PM

Politics

Should Justice Elena Kagan Recuse Herself from ObamaCare Cases?

Damon Root | 7.13.2010 10:43 AM

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A Victory for Floral Freedom in Louisiana

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2010 12:52 PM

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Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense

Understanding Clarence Thomas' extraordinary concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago

Damon Root | 7.9.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Equal Protection Argument for Gay Marriage

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2010 1:36 PM

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The First Amendment Right to Carry a Gun

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2010 10:48 AM

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Is Nullification Constitutional?

Damon Root | 7.9.2010 9:59 AM

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Wine Snobs and Suds Swillers Unite!

Legislation oozing its way up the Hill threatens open markets in beer, wine, and liquor.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.8.2010 4:30 PM

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Justice Oliver Wendell Kagan

Damon Root | 7.7.2010 10:14 AM

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Natural Reluctance

Elena Kagan's disturbing refusal to acknowledge pre-existing rights

Jacob Sullum | 7.7.2010 7:00 AM

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Kagan and Free Speech: Good News and Bad News

Jacob Sullum | 7.6.2010 3:28 PM

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How Republicans Made Their Peace with Sodomy

The GOP's selective case against judicial activism

Steve Chapman | 7.5.2010 7:00 AM

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Coburn and Kagan on Natural Rights

Jacob Sullum | 7.2.2010 12:36 PM

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The Aftermath of McDonald v. Chicago

What's next for gun rights?

Brian Doherty | 7.1.2010 4:30 PM

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What About Tom Coburn's 'Expansive View of the Commerce Clause'?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2010 2:27 PM

Politics

Is Eating Fruits and Vegetables an Economic Activity? Does It Matter?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2010 1:43 PM

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Is It Constitutional? Well, It's Dumb, but That's Not the Same Thing. All Right Then.

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 2:21 PM

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Kagan: That Was Them, This Is Me

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 1:19 PM

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Sonia Sotomayor and the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 6.30.2010 8:57 AM

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Gun Shy

Four Supreme Court justices make the case against constitutional rights.

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 7:00 AM

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Will Elena Kagan Allow Books to be Banned?

Understanding the Supreme Court nominee's chilling argument in Citizens United

Daniel Shuchman | 6.29.2010 6:00 PM

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Stevens Calls the Right to Arms a 'Property Right' (for Him, the Ultimate Insult)

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 4:20 PM

Politics

Breyer: Now Judges Will Have to Decide What a Semiautomatic Is

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 3:25 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Damon Root on McDonald v. Chicago

Reason Staff | 6.29.2010 11:46 AM

Politics

Justice John Paul Stevens Is Wrong About Gun Rights, Again

Damon Root | 6.28.2010 12:24 PM