A symposium on Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism

Vermeule aims to justify the administrative state with History and the Common Good.

If a constitution is merely an instrument for implementing favored conservative policy goals, why have one at all?

Discussion of police powers and the common good is useful and necessary for Americans today.

Federalism is central to the American tradition because confederated governance promotes an essential feature of the common good—a common people.

The people make the fundamental, enduring decisions about the best framework for promoting the common good within a disciplined, supermajoritarian process.

Even the most sagacious among us can be snookered by manipulative con men

In the woke world, feelings become sacred.

Congress is less likely to decide major policy questions if the courts make it easy for politicians to evade responsibility for them.

In Andrew Jackson's America, there was no justice, and no peace.