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Besides the enumerated powers, the Constitution says Congress is granted the powers necessary and proper to putting enumerated powers into effect. Those powers are implicitly granted. This is no shock.

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I’d only add the caveat that of course the Federal Government must regulate certain kinds of publications/utterances: perjury, military insubordination, etc.

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Adams’ _The First American Constitutions_ is a place to start to study state constitutions. There isn’t a really good history of Virginia constitutions, although Sutton’s _Revolution to Secession_ tries to cover the early republican period.

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There would of course be some criminal law under the Article I, Section 8 powers, as counterfeiting, treason, sedition, etc., must be punished.

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Crapol also assumes the wrongness of Tyler’s Jeffersonian constitutional views. I much prefer Chitwood’s Tyler biography.

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Very kind of you. You’re welcome.

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Ted Cruz’s father was not a natural-born citizen, and in fact was still a Cuban when the senator was born.

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I’d probably have him start with Ludwell Johnson’s _North Against South_.

Kind of you. Yes, I do have another LibertyClassroom.com course in the works.

You’re welcome.

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Is the person in question an early teen or a late teen, bright, average, or slow, etc.? Does he know anything about the subject, or will this be all new to him?

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The Virginia one was in 1619 at what is now Berkeley Plantation. That estate is currently the oldest working farm in the USA. It is the ancestral home of the Harrisons, including Revolutionary Virginia governor Benjamin Harrison, President William Henry Harrison, and President Benjamin Harrison.

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Shays’ Rebellion is described in both the constitutional history and the American history survey course. However, this assertion–of which I had never heard until now–isn’t mentioned. There’s simply no evidence for it in, for example, the writings of James Madison (subject of my last book), and abundant evidence that the concern was that all men be armed so that they could offset a potential tyrannous Federal Government.

Your interlocutor perhaps isn’t aware that in the western counties of Massachusetts, essentially the whole communities–including county militia colonels–participated in the Rebellion.

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You’re welcome.

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I don’t understand your question. What do you mean by “ideas for cases?”

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The Virginia Constitution of 1776 was amended in 1830 and replaced in 1851.

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John Taylor of Caroline, _Arator_, _Tyranny Unmasked_, _An Inquiry…_;
Lance Banning, _The Jeffersonian Persuasion_;
Drew McCoy, _The Elusive Republic_;
Russell Kirk, _John Randolph of Roanoke_;
Norman Risjord, _The Old Republicans…_….

If you want more after those, let me know. I’d read them in this order:
Banning
McCoy
Risjord
Kirk
Taylor

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