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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights See the historical notes under proposal and ratification, in particular the table of article revisions approved in 1789…

It would be nice to see folks who take such a rigorous stance on the First and Second Amendments (not in this article, but in author’s book _Battlefield America_) adopt similarly r…

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Market forces? It was the Haber process and subsequent innovations around nitrogen-fixing. It was scientific progress that saved us from Malthusian collapse. On the other hand, mar…

If you need to read the last sentence of OP with “. . . at the time of the framing,” added to the end, then I’m fine with that.

The 13th Amendment belongs to a different document than the Constitution proper and was ratified about eighty years later. From the standpoint of the dominant school of constitutio…

The 5th, 8th and 13th Amendments and their various interpretations in court opinions: this is a good place to start learning about prisoner rights. Some argue that prisoners do not…

They’re Ivy schools; that money was already going to the ruling class and their political causes (e.g., as Supreme Court clerkships, civil service appointments, and etc.). As tax d…

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As other commenters have pointed out any given introductory chapter in a book on Bayesian statistics, including Jaynes’, is better exposition than this. I found _Probability Theory…

> The experts noted that arms transfers to Hamas and other armed groups are also prohibited by international law, given their grave violations of international humanitarian law on …

Happily, you don’t have to trust what some UN experts (listed at the bottom) are saying about Israel in this article; IDF’s own casualty numbers are the only evidence needed for th…

I assumed they were talking about genital reassignment surgery for infants born with ambiguous genitals.

> A child cannot goddamn consent. And yet, somehow, children across the United States get the exact same gender-affirming treatments (including but not limited to hormone therapy, …

Conservative legal minds will argue that the laundry list of topics covered under 102.A includes a duty to censor, e.g., “information on transitioning”. They already believe any an…

Not to mention the Federalist Society and their attack on constitutional law over the past twenty-some years.

Folks have been translating Homer for centuries, any modern translation is going to be adequate.

Author is a libertarian, not a socialist.