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I'm too cheap to buy most books. I generally get them out of the library here. Only the odd book which they don't have do I purchase, generally used via the Amazon partners. The Idaho Supreme Court sits downtown so there's a public law library of large size too - with free Westlaw access when...

IIRC Juan Carlos served as a rallying point for his countrymen after the death of Franco. The US is unique in that, rather than having a figurehead monarch to serve as a national rallying point, it has a document to which we swear loyalty. What often is forgotten is that the...

Is that a spare face for the Statue of Liberty? :confused:

Heck, I'm still unable to determine who invented the Dutch door. :confused:

The rights were gradually evolving ever since the time of Magna Carta (1215). Rotten King John didn't exactly sign it of his own free will: his nobles essentially put a gun to his head and forced him to sign it. By the time of the English Enlightenment, the thought was in the wind that there...

Phil, for example: Declaration: "He [rotten King George] has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries." Constitution, Art. III, section 1: "The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their...

It's interesting to make a cross-reference chart between the grievances enumerated in the Declaration and the structure of government and individual rights enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Down with the British! What I really need is screen cap from The Great Escape here.