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December 9, 2021

Fizzy Drink or Fuzzy Thinking?

Questionable arguments in Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s critique of anti-administrativism Continue reading

Administrative Law, Law and economics

administrative state, madison, Sunstein, Vermeule
September 23, 2021

Common Factionalism

The political rhetoric of the common good is poorly disguised factionalism, which the thinkers in whose name it is being advanced would have abhorred Continue reading

Political philosophy

Burke, common good, madison, politics, populism, representative government
August 15, 2019

Madison and Canadian Constitutional Law

Because we are in the slow days of summer, and I have a bit more time on my hands than I would usually have, I picked up a copy of Richard Matthews’ 1995 book, If Men Were Angels: James Madison & the Heartless Empire of Reason. Immediately, one’s Canadian eyes might begin to glaze over. Continue reading

Constitutional law, Constitutional Theory

deference, legal theory, madison