the Framers used the constitution of the state of New York of 1777 but omitted the section that would have prohibited intersession pocket vetoes (“that if any bill shall not be returned . . .

More than 700 scholarly books on the Constitution existed by his count, but nearly all seemed dense and inaccessible. Walton remedied things by creating a pocket-sized reference containing the ...

which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it ...

Pulling out his pocket-sized Constitution, he could not find where the founding fathers included a section on “assassinating ...