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In our listener’s question section, we discuss the “rule of necessity.”  Here is an excerpt from America’s Unwritten Constitution which explains this further.

Continuing our legal background for Professor Amar’s answer to our listener’s question, here is more on then-former Chief Justice Taney’s letter regarding undiminishable salary and income tax laws.

Getting deeper into these weeds, Professor Amar offers a discussion of the Saxbe fix and its relation to emoluments and Article I of the Constitution.

And now, the endnotes from America’s Unwritten Constitution on the Saxbe fix discussion.

Turning now to the Obamacare case, Professor Amar writes in Slate on the many ways the Court had to uphold the statute.

Now as we review the same-sex marriage case, Professor Amar appreciates Justice Kennedy’s opinion, but has some refinements to suggest.