Madisonian Campaign Finance Reform

by | May 29, 2022 | Campaign Finance, Madison

Michael J. Malbin * | 23.5 | Article | Citation: Michael J. Malbin, A Neo-Madisonian Perspective on Campaign Finance Reform, Institutions, Pluralism, and Small Donors, 23 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 907 (2021). Recent events remind us of the importance and fragility of the...

Madison on Regulation

by | Oct 9, 2020 | Law, Madison, Regulation

Federalist 62: To trace the mischievous effects of a mutable government would fill a volume. I will hint a few only, each of which will be perceived to be a source of innumerable others.   In the first place, it forfeits the respect and confidence of other...

Madisonian Reform of Congress

by | Sep 11, 2020 | Congress, Deliberation, Madison

Yuval Levin at National Review: Most often, proposals for reform are what we might call (following the political scientist Daniel Stid) Wilsonian rather than Madisonian: Implicitly following the advice of Woodrow Wilson, they aim to remake Congress along the model of...

Conservatism and History

by | Aug 7, 2020 | Constitution, Madison

Martin Skold and J. Furman Daniel at The Bulwark: As George Will articulated in his recent book, one of few constants in American conservatism over the centuries is its veneration of the Madisonian Constitution, not merely as a legal system to be manipulated or...