Robert Black
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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
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Introducing: Constitutional Perspectives!
Announcing a new project here at The Evening Constitutional!
As I wrote shortly after last November's election, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a library of materials explaining Americ...
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I have an announcement!!
Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!
This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law
eveningconstitutional.net/introducing-...
Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!
This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law
eveningconstitutional.net/introducing-...
Yeah uhhhhhhhhh that would not transform my understanding of the world, to say the least
Is "British" technically correct, as to persons from Northern Ireland?
(I mean hypertechnically Ireland is Lesser Britain I think, buuuuuut...)
(I mean hypertechnically Ireland is Lesser Britain I think, buuuuuut...)
No, it was a reference to a literal standing invitation to join the Union that was in the Articles of Confederation
I am aware of Trump's threats of conquest; in fact I have written about how they are illegal!
I am aware of Trump's threats of conquest; in fact I have written about how they are illegal!
That was Britain
Haha whoops
Let's, uhhh, let's say that in that last tweet I was addressing Canadians in the abstract!
Let's, uhhh, let's say that in that last tweet I was addressing Canadians in the abstract!
You ever feel like the elite strata of our society are just rotten wood? Hollowed out, absolutely nothing of real substance there?
Dude it's so bad
Y'all stayed loyal to the Crown, the consequence of which is that when people say "Americans" they mean us and not you. Deal with it.
Sure ain't!
Could be, though. They have a standing invite.
Could be, though. They have a standing invite.
This was exactly my thought lol, it seems to me less like you're trying to be woke and more like you're the kind of marketer who turns every -s plural into a z
Patrick Henry literally said this in 1774, at the opening of the First Continental Congress: we are no more Virginians or New Yorkers or whatever, we're all Americans now
It reflects the coming-together of (most of) British North America, as it then was, into a single political community
It reflects the coming-together of (most of) British North America, as it then was, into a single political community
Do we yet know if they're in fact dead??
Could also join the federal union! Canada's had a standing invitation since before the Constitution was written.
The United States of America is not and has never been a nation-state, strictly speaking. There is therefore no national demonym associated with it.
It's a continental polity by nature, and so its members are named according to the continent
It's a continental polity by nature, and so its members are named according to the continent
The things, within the United States, that are equivalent to, like, the various other countries on the American continents, that would be the states
The equivalent to e.g. "Canadian" is e.g. "Virginian"
Except the states were amalgamated into the federal Union
The equivalent to e.g. "Canadian" is e.g. "Virginian"
Except the states were amalgamated into the federal Union
yeah this is exactly why USians continues to irritate me
Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
Gonna put my constitutional theorist hat on and say that the reason people from the United States are called Americans is that we're a federal union, the United States of America, and that membership in that federal polity has come to predominate over the individual states
Kind of makes it sound like you're talking about, like, Celts, or something
Wait how else are you supposed to say it
As in the first-person plural pronoun??
As in the first-person plural pronoun??
Skill issue
Wait is this suggesting that the shooting was staged
It's kind of a fascinating word. If you're abroad, it means any American. If you're in the South, it means a Northerner. If you're in New Jersey, it means someone from New England. And if you're in Queens, it means an asshole.
I am also from New Jersey, and am a fan of a New York baseball club
A... Metropolitan baseball club, you might even say
A... Metropolitan baseball club, you might even say
I'm very much a Northerner but this bothers me because of the baseball connotation
The Bizarro First Amendment
Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon
papers.ssrn.com
I wrote a whole entire article about how First Amendment cases like say Janus v. AFSCME (the First Amendment says you can't collect union dues) are laying the groundwork for full-on Lochnerism in the name of free speech!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Yeah I mean, we're talking like, Nozick here, libertarian principles of distributive justice, as much as anything
The idea that, if you begin (at time immemorial) with a fair distribution of assets, then anything that happens from there with people making voluntary choices is necessarily just
The idea that, if you begin (at time immemorial) with a fair distribution of assets, then anything that happens from there with people making voluntary choices is necessarily just
Yeah but the point isn't to negate free will, it's to negate libertarianism
Yeah it's really bad
I kind of think John Roberts is fixing to say something of this form
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Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
yeah this is exactly why USians continues to irritate me
Yeah, there's definitely like, a division among the younguns between the ones who are kind of just living that zen life about gender stuff, and the ones who are reinventing patriarchy from first principles