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Archives for September 27, 2010

Lawyers don’t produce anything.

This is the one in which a lawyer produces something.  But first, this from Antonin Scalia: [L]awyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table… And now, cut […]

Andrew Jackson on Nullification

I ran across an interesting piece of political history this weekend. With nullification occasionally making the news across the country, I thought it was interesting to see how the executive responded to it in one of its first appearances, during the Administration of Andrew Jackson. THE Constitution of the United States forms a government, not […]