by jpitney | Sep 12, 2020 | Campaign Finance, Federalist, Madison, Uncategorized
At APSA, Michael Malbin has a paper titled “A Neo-Madisonian Perspective on Campaign Finance Reform, Institutions, Pluralism, and Small Donors.” This working paper steps away from the speech-and-corruption debates that have dominated campaign finance...
by jpitney | 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...
by jpitney | 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...
by jpitney | Feb 16, 2020 | Language, Law, Madison
From Federalist 37: The experience of ages, with the continued and combined labors of the most enlightened legislatures and jurists, has been equally unsuccessful in delineating the several objects and limits of different codes of laws and different tribunals of...
