Month: <span>May 2020</span>
Month: May 2020

California Reaming – The Gig Economy & Constitutional Contracts Clause

We discuss California’s new law to regulate the Gig Economy “AB-5” The affect it’s having on employers and freelance contractors alike and what It can help teach us about the Constitution’s Contracts Clause (Article 1 Section 10 Clause 1)
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Today in Founding History – Virginia Declaration of Rights

It was on this day May 6th in 1776 that our nation’s first Bill of Rights, “The Virginia Declaration of Rights” written by George Mason was first published.
This seminal document played an invaluable role in the writing of the Declaration of Independence and of our Federal Bill of Rights in 1791
It’s importance is worldwide. Concepts from this bill of rights can be found in Constitutions of revolutionary France, to China & Vietnam.
We learn a little about the history of this great document and examine the ideas it contained

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Constitutional Revolution of 1937 (The Irrepressible Myth of A Political Judiciary)

On this episode of Categorical Imperatives: Ever wondered how the Supreme Court came to be as a political body, despite it’s Constitutional Role of a non-political Judiciary… Today I go back and talk about how that assumption came about and why it is wrong.

Current events, law, politics & culture through a lens of legal and moral philosophy

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