All Publications by John C. Eastman
  • Report posted January 13, 2011 by John C. Eastman Enough Is Enough: Why General Welfare Limits Spending

    Perhaps no other clause in the Constitution generated as much debate among the Founders as the “Spending Clause”—the first of the 18 powers granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, the principal authors of The Federalist, famously disagreed…

  • Legal Memorandum posted March 30, 2006 by John C. Eastman From Feudalism to Consent : Rethinking Birthright Citizenship

    It is today routinely believed that under the Citi­zenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, mere birth on U.S. soil is sufficient to obtain U.S. citizen­ship. However strong this commonly believed inter­pretation might appear, it is incompatible not only with the text of the Citizenship Clause (particularly as informed by the debate…