Commerce Clause

Elkison v. Deliesseline presented a federal court with the question of whether a state could incarcerate and enslave a free subject of a foreign government.

Examining slavery, Indian removal, and state policies regulating mobility to trace the constitutional origins of immigration restriction in the 1800s.

American bureaucracy's long and useful history.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Congress enacted several laws restricting the sale of alcohol to Native Americans.

In his new book, The Crooked Path to Abolition, James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.

In 1963, after Sam Cooke was turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana, because he was black, he wrote “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He was right.

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.