CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES
Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs • Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice • Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs • Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice • Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow |
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Cato’s
constitutional scholars take their inspiration from the struggle of America’s
founding generation to secure liberty through limited government and the
rule of law. Under the direction of Roger Pilon, the Center for Constitutional
Studies was established to revive the idea that the Constitution authorizes
a government of delegated, enumerated, and thus limited powers, the exercise
of which must be further restrained by our rights, both enumerated and unenumerated.
Through books, monographs, conferences, forums, op-eds, speeches, congressional
testimony, and TV and radio appearances, the Center's scholars address a
wide range of constitutional and legal issues -- from federalism to economic
liberty, property rights, civil rights, criminal law and procedure, asset
forfeiture, and term limits, to name just a few. The Center is especially
concerned to encourage the judiciary to be the "bulwark" of our liberties,
as James Madison put it, neither making up nor ignoring the law but interpreting
and applying it through the natural rights tradition we inherited from the
founding generation.
Books After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century, edited by Timothy Lynch, November 2000. The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton, September 2000, edited by Roger Pilon, published by the Cato Institute. In its political agenda, its legal briefs, and its executive actions, the Clinton administration has systematically abused the Constitution, common law, statutes, and legal institutions. "The Purpose and Limits of Government," by Roger Pilon, chapter 2 in Limiting Leviathan, Edgar Press, May 1999. Reprinted as Cato's Letters #13. Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine, 1998, by Clay S. Conrad, an attorney in private practice in Houston, Texas. This Carolina Academic Press book recounts the history of jury nullification as a means of holding the government to the principles of the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, 1998. This pocket edition of America's founding documents contains a brief preface by Roger Pilon that relates the two documents through their underlying principles. The Affirmative Action Fraud, 1996, by Clint Bolick, vice president and director of litigation at the Institute for Justice. This Cato Institute book documents how the civil rights vision has moved from "equal rights" to "special rights." Forfeiting Our Property Rights, 1995, by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.). This Cato Institute book makes a powerful case for reforming America's civil asset forfeiture law. Simple Rules for a Complex World, 1995, by Richard A. Epstein, co-published with Harvard University Press. The Politics and Law of Term Limits, 1994, ed. by Edward H. Crane and Roger Pilon. Grass Roots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism, 1993, by Clint Bolick. Flag-Burning, Discrimination, and the Right to Do Wrong: Two Debates, ed. by Roger Pilon. Revised transcript of May 11, 1990, Cato debate between Morton H. Halperin of the ACLU and Paul D. Kamenar of the Washington Legal Foundation; and June 7, 1990 debate between Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School and Antonio J. Califa of the ACLU. The
Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment,
1990, ed. by Randy Barnett, co-published with George Mason University
Press. Papers by Topic Federalism and Enumerated Powers |
