The Case for the Repeal Amendment

Today, a political movement has arisen to oppose what seems to be a highly discretionary and legally unconstrained federal government. Beginning in the Bush Administration during the Panic of 2008 and accelerating during the Obama Administration, the federal government has bailed out or taken over banks, car companies, and student loans. It is now preparing to vastly expand the Internal Revenue Service to help it take charge of the practice of medicine for the first time in American history. This marked and rapid increase of power has shaken many Americans who are now looking to the United States Constitution with renewed interest in the limits it imposes on the powers of Congress. Despite what the Constitution says, however, federal judges have allowed Congress to exceed its enumerated powers for so long, it seems they no longer entertain even the possibility of enforcing the text. Judges appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents largely operate within what academics call the New Deal settlement. By this it is meant that the courts allow Congress to exercise unchecked power over the national economy and everything that may affect it, limited only by the express guarantees of the Bill of Rights. In this arena, with some exceptions, the post-New Deal judiciary disagrees only on whether other unenumerated rights may also receive protection and, if so, which ones. But whatever few additional fundamental rights may be recognized, they do not include the protection of any so-called economic liberty that might inhibit the national regime of economic regulation. In this manner, the original scheme of islands of federal powers in a sea of liberty has been transformed into a regime of islands of rights in a vast sea of national power. But judicial passivism is not the only cause of expanding congressional power. Also responsible are two changes to the Constitution\u27s structure that were made in 1913 as populist or progressive reforms but which fundamentally altered the relationship between the federal government, the states, and the people as it appears in the Constitution\u27s text

Can an Office Change a Country? The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: A Year in Review

Places the White House OFBCI in the context of the institutional presidency and identifies the challenges it presented. Examines campaign creation, transition planning, and future prospects for the OFBCI

South Dakota Art Museum, Summer 1989

ExhibitionsFriends Make the DifferenceTouring Exhibitions from the MuseumMuseum Gift Shop has New Dunn PrintRecent AcquisitionsPeopleMuseum Receives State and Federal GrantsMemberships and Endowment Contributorshttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news/1036/thumbnail.jp

South Dakota Art Museum, Winter 1989-90

ExhibitionsTouring Exhibitions ProgramRecent AcquisitionsIn MemoriamKaren York Leaves MuseumMembership and Endowment Contributorshttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news/1038/thumbnail.jp

South Dakota Art Museum News, Winter 1988-89

Winter ExhibitionsMuseum Helps Celebrate the CenturyRecent AcquisitionsAuction Benefits Museum EndowmentGuild Takes Museum to the SchoolsFashions Help with AcquisitionsRecent Endowment ContributorsSouth Dakota Artists RecognizedWelcome to New and Renewing Membershttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news/1034/thumbnail.jp

South Dakota Art Museum, Fall 1989

Art for a New CenturyMuseum Collections EnhancedMi Young Lee PaintingsJeanette Abbey Collection Established at Museum Casey Leaves Museum BoardLakota Tribal Art to Tour State Museum Guild Members Qualify as Docentshttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news/1037/thumbnail.jp

South Dakota Art Museum News, Winter 1992-93

Volume 23, Number 3 Special ExhibitionsMuseum Shop has GiftsRecent AcquisitionsMuseum Director to RetireA Special Note of AppreciationMembers and Endowment Contributorshttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news/1017/thumbnail.jp

South Dakota Art Museum News, Summer 1993

Volume 24, Number 1 Summer ExhibitionsRecent AcquisitionsA Special Note of AppreciationPeopleMembers and Endowment Contributorshttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news/1019/thumbnail.jp

Founders of Prominent Firms - Alumni List

A list of the New York Law School alumni who founded prominent firms