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The Commerce Clause and the Frightening Liberty of Direct Exchange

Person-to-person economies, intermediary power, federal authority, and the constitutional limits of turning commerce into permission Keywords: Commerce Clause; Foreign Commerce Clause; Dormant Commerce Clause; person-to-person economy; peer-to-peer exchange; financial intermediation; banks; payment systems; federalism; digital cash; Bitcoin; transaction costs; channels of commerce; instrumentalities of commerce; substantial effects; anti-commandeering; administrative state;

The Commerce Clause and the Frightening Liberty of Direct Exchange

The Constitution Against the Empire of Intermediaries

Separation of powers, federalism, national accountability, and the constitutional rejection of rule by insulated managers Keywords: United States Constitution; constitutional law; separation of powers; federalism; administrative state; nondelegation; major questions doctrine; Appointments Clause; removal power; anti-commandeering; treaty power; Article III; Seventh Amendment; jury trial; republican government; democratic accountability; sovereignty; intermediary

The Constitution Against the Empire of Intermediaries

The Constitutional Case Against Universal High Income

Keywords: constitutional law, Spending Clause, unconstitutional conditions doctrine, non-delegation, major questions doctrine, due process, federalism, universal basic income, universal high income, administrative state, Tenth Amendment, First Amendment Spending Power, Unconstitutional Conditions, and the Architecture of Dependency Under the United States Constitution Thesis: A federal programme of Universal High Income, distributed

The Constitutional Case Against Universal High Income

The Constitutional War Power in Crisis: Executive Overreach and the Erosion of Congressional Authority in the Second Trump Administration

Abstract. The second Trump administration has tested the constitutional allocation of war powers with an aggressiveness that, while continuous with a long trajectory of executive expansion, represents a cumulative escalation in both the number of concurrent unilateral military operations and the breadth of the legal theories advanced to justify them.

The Constitutional War Power in Crisis: Executive Overreach and the Erosion of Congressional Authority in the Second Trump Administration

The Executive as Legislature: Constitutional Structure and the Second Trump Administration's Systematic Displacement of Congressional Authority

How executive orders, impoundment, and institutional demolition are rewriting the separation of powers without amending the Constitution By Dr Craig Wright Constitutional crises do not always announce themselves. They sometimes arrive as administrative memoranda, OMB directives, and executive orders that individually appear to push familiar boundaries but collectively redraw the

The Executive as Legislature: Constitutional Structure and the Second Trump Administration's Systematic Displacement of Congressional Authority