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Federalist Society teleforum on The Conscience of The Constitution Feb. 6

February 04, 2014 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

The Federalist Society will be hosting a teleforum on my new book, The Conscience of The Constitution, this Thursday at 1pm Eastern time, 10am Pacfic. Joining me will be Clark Neily, senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, and author of the new book, Terms of Engagement (which I have reviewed for the next issue … ...

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Challenging the Dogma of Deference

October 09, 2013 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

Our Constitution includes several ingenious mechanisms for protecting individual rights—checks and balances, the separation of powers, federalism, enumerated powers, the Bill of Rights. Central to these was the idea of an active and independent judiciary, which would contribute its part by balancing the other branches and ensuring the legality of ...