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Mar 1, 2026

The Constitution and the Protocol: Commerce, Due Process, and the Contract Nobody Noticed

In which we discover that proof-of-work mining has been creating enforceable contracts under everyone's nose, that those contracts are property, and that the Commerce Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Contracts Clause, and the Takings Clause have been patiently waiting for someone to notice. There is a particular

The Constitution and the Protocol: Commerce, Due Process, and the Contract Nobody Noticed
Feb 23, 2026

The Constitution of Contempt: On Greenland, Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Law

When a state breaks its own treaties, it is not the treaty that dies. It is the state's claim to be anything other than a predator with a flag. There is a sentence buried in the preamble to Greenland's 2009 Self-Government Act that is worth more

The Constitution of Contempt: On Greenland, Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Law
Feb 14, 2026

The Commerce Clause Has No Limiting Principle

How judicial construction converted an enumerated power into a general police power — and what it would take to fix it There is a question that sits at the centre of American constitutional law, and almost nobody wants to answer it honestly. The question is this: Is there anything Congress cannot

The Commerce Clause Has No Limiting Principle
Constitutional Law · Feb 7, 2026

The Jury Is Not a Fact-Finding Machine. It Never Was.

Britain is dismantling jury trials to clear court backlogs. America has already sidelined them through plea bargaining. Both countries are making the same constitutional mistake—and the consequences go far deeper than procedure.

The Jury Is Not a Fact-Finding Machine. It Never Was.
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