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26th Amendment
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Balkinization
26th Amendment Circuit Split
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The Fourth Circuit today held that a South Carolina law restricting "no-excuse" absentee mail-in ballots to voters 65 and older violates the 26th Amendment. This decision stands in contrast to…
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The Dismal State of State Legislative Records
Main Tuesday, May 13, 2025The Dismal State of State Legislative RecordsIn 1970, Illinois wrote a new state constitution (the current one). Article IV, Section 7(b) states:"Each house shall keep a…
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Cold War Constitutionalism
Main Monday, March 31, 2025Cold War ConstitutionalismBefore returning to the details of the Bayh Subcommittee proposal on the Electoral College, I want to lay out one potential theme for my…
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Political Violence in the 1960s
Main Monday, March 24, 2025Political Violence in the 1960sAnother subtext in the work of the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments was violence. The 25th Amendment would not have been ratified…
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The Scope of the Bayh Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
Main Monday, March 17, 2025The Scope of the Bayh Subcommittee on Constitutional AmendmentsMy next book project is on the Senate Subcommittee that produced the 25th Amendment, the 26th Amendment, the…
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A New Research Project
Main Wednesday, August 28, 2024A New Research ProjectSenator Birch Bayh's papers are held by Indiana University. Senator Bayh was the longtime chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments (from…
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Conscription in Constitutional Argument
Main Monday, February 27, 2023Conscription in Constitutional ArgumentThere are many ways in which conscription makes itself felt in constitutional argument. One is as an argument for expanding voting rights--the 26th…
Simple Justice
It’s Hard To Amend The Constitution; It Should Be
As progressives continue to lament the likelihood that the Supreme Court will not serve their cause of reinventing the Constitution via lawfare to accomplish what they have proven unable to…
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Ordinary Meaning vs. Literal Meaning
Main Wednesday, June 17, 2020Ordinary Meaning vs. Literal MeaningOne dividing line between the majority and the dissent on the interpretation of Title VII was whether the ordinary meaning or the…
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Birch Bayh RIP
Main Thursday, March 14, 2019Birch Bayh RIPI wanted to note the passing of former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh. He is the only American other than Madison who drafted more than…