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2008/01/19 — The English
Constitution, John Louis De Lolme (1771) — Discusses separation of
powers, the jury system, and habeas corpus. RE
2007/03/18 — The Law That Always Was, Vern Holland (1987) — Treatise on the legitimacy of the income tax. REF
2006/09/24 — Works of James Wilson
(1804) — Includes "Lectures on Law, 1790-1792" and other writings of the Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention. REF
2006/09/05 — WA brief disquisition of the law of nature, according to the principles laid down in the reverend Dr. Cumberland's (now Lord Bishop of Peterborough's) Latin treatise on that subject. As also his considerations of Mr. Hobbs's principles put into another method., James Tyrrell (1692) — Disquisition on natural law theory. R
2006/02/01 — Martyrdom of King Charles I, W. Delavne
(1703) — Sermon before House of Commons. Comments on some of the constitutional issues involved in the trial and execution of that monarch. REF
2005/11/08 — Presumption of Nonauthority and Unenumerated Rights, by Jon Roland, Begun November 6, 2005, in progress.A
2005/08/01 — Mansfieldism Reconsidered, by Jon Roland — Review of evidence for arguing law in the presence of the jury. A
2005/03/22 — The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735. 17 How. 675. The jury
decided that truth was a defense against libel. RE
2005/03/13 — Citizenship, U.S. War Department Training Manual 2000-25
(1928) — Civics textbook for training Army troops. RE
2005/01/01 — Legal Research
by the use of Corpus Juris Secundum, Donald J. Kiser (1924) — Guide
for students of the law. RE
2004/12/19 — The Elements of the Common Lawes of
England, Francis Bacon (1630) — Treatise on English Common
Law. RE
2004/12/16 — An account of Denmark, as it was in
the year 1692, Robert Molesworth (1694) — Commentary on Denmark
that is really a commentary on constitutional issues in England. RE
2004/12/12 — WThe American Manual, or, The Thinker, Joseph
Bartlett Burleigh (1854) — Civics textbook focusing on U.S.
Constitution. RE
2004/11/01 — Inquiry into the Moral and Religious
Character of the American Government, H. W Warner (1838) —
Commentary on the relation between government and religious practices. R
2004/05/22 — United
States Constitution, Jon Roland. Entry in Encyclopedia of
Leadership, Vol. 4, Ed. George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, &
James MacGregor Burns, Sage Publications, 2004. A
2004/05/18 — Policraticus, John of Salisbury
(1159), various translations — Argued that citizens have the right to
depose and kill tyrannical rulers. RE
2004/04/19 — The Nature of the Judicial Process, Benjamin
N. Cardozo (1921) — Discusses the debate between legal realists and
constitutionalists. REF
2003/11/06 — Losing Liberty Judicially, Thomas James
Norton (1928) — Examines how courts have gone along with departures from
original understanding. REF
2003/09/14 — A Treatise on American Citizenship, John S.
Wise (1906) — Discussion of the history and principles of various kinds of
citizenship. REF
2003/08/24 — The History of the Common Law of England,
Matthew Hale (1713) — Important reference for the Founders. REF
2003/06/23 — Journal of William Maclay — Maclay
served as senator from Pennslyvania from 1789 to 1791 and kept a private
journal of his experiences that is highly revealing. REF
2003/06/14 — Evolving Complex Networks in Constitutional
Republics, by Jon Roland — Examines how changing network structures
can reveal how political and economic processes behave and
misbehave. A
2003/06/10 — Fairfax County Resolves (1774) —
Developed the issues that led to the Declaration of Independence. REF
2003/06/08 — Constitutional View of the Late War between the
States, Alexander Stephens (1868) — Vice-President of the
Confederacy explains why the war was fought. REF
2003/05/23 — Laws, Plato (~348 BCE) — Model
laws for a republic, including sortition and militia. REF
2003/05/08 — Discourse on the Constitution and Government
of the United States, John C. Calhoun. REFI
2003/03/23 — An Essay on the Lacedæmonian
Government, Walter Moyle (1698) — How the Spartan constitution
given by Lycurgus inspired English political philosophers. REF
2003/03/10 — Considerations on the Constitutionality of
the President's Proclamations, John Henderson (1854) — Commentary
on executive orders. REF
2003/03/01 — Considerations on the Causes of the
Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, Charles Montesquieu (~1734)
— Historical analysis that laid the basis for his Spirit of Laws and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire. R(E pending)
2003/02/07 — Two Essays: On the Foundation of Civil
Government, On the Constitution of the United States, Thomas Cooper
(1826) — Commentary on constitutional theory. R(E pending)
2003/02/05 — The Leveller Movement, Theodore
Calvin Pease (1916) — A study in the history and political theory of the
English Great Civil War. R(E pending)
2003/02/04 — Three Human Rights in the Constitution of
1787, Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (1956) — Historical analysis of free
debate, prohibition of bills of attainder, and freedom of
movement. R(E
pending)
2003/01/13 — WTucker's
Blackstone, William Blackstone, ed. St. George Tucker. R R(E pending)
2003/01/10 — The Civil Law, tr. & ed. S. P.
Scott (1932) — Includes the Law of the Twelve Tables (450 BCE), the
Institutes of Gaius (180), the Rules of Ulpian (222), the Opinions of Paulus
(224), the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian (533), which codified Roman
Law, and the Constitutions of Leo. R(EF pending)
2002/12/19 — Case of the Imprisonment of Edward Bushell,
for alleged misconduct as a Juryman, 1670. 22 Charles II. 6 How. 999. Having
failed to convict Penn, the prosecution sought to punish the jurors, but
failed, thereby establishing the right and duty of juries to judge the law as
well as the facts in criminal trials. RE
2002/12/19 — The Trial of William Penn and William Mead,
at the Old Bailey, for a Tumultuous Assembly, 1670. 22 Charles II. 6 How. 951.
Established the right of religion. RE
2002/12/04 — Principles of Constitutional
Interpretation, Jon Roland. A
2002/12/02 — Sortition for Judges, by Jon Roland.
2002/08/12 — Selected Works of Marchamont Nedham (~1650)
— English columnist comments on political issues of his era. REFI
2002/08/04 — WIntroduction to the Study of the Law of the
Constitution, Albert Venn Dicey (8th Ed., 1914) — Comparative
analysis of the constitutional orders of several nations, focusing on
Britain. R
2002/08/04 — Lex, Rex (The Law is King), Samuel
Rutherford (1644) — Theological arguments for the rule of law over the
rule of men. REFI
2002/07/19 — The General Principles of Constitutional Law
in the United States of America, Thomas M. Cooley (1891) —
Introduction by the leading constitutional scholar of his era. RE
2002/06/27 — The Evolution of the Constitution of the
United States, Sydney George Fisher (1897). Traces each of the clauses
of the U.S. Constitution back to previous colonial, state and other government
documents. REF
2002/06/25 — A Constitutional History of the United
States, Andrew McLaughlin (1936) — Perhaps the best single
textbook on the subject, winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize. REF
2002/06/24 — State Documents on Federal
Relations, Herman V. Ames (1911) — Debates among the states on the
Constitution, 1789-1861. REF
2002/06/01 — Construction Contrued and Constitutions
Vindicated, John Taylor (1820) — A commentary on some of the
misconstructions of the Constitution by the Marshall Court. REF
2002/05/23 — Tyranny Unmasked, John Taylor
(1821) — An attack on the constitutionality of protective tariffs and
other violations of the original understanding of the Constitution, as seen by
the leading spokesman for the Jeffersonian "Old Republicans". REF
2002/05/10 — A Healing Question, Sir Henry Vane (1656)
— He was tried for writing this in a famous trial that tested the right of
free speech. REF
2002/05/07 — A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of
the Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States, Peter Stephen Du
Ponceau (1824) — Discusses the various kinds of jurisdiction, in
locum, in personam, and in subjectam materiam, and the limits
of the jurisdictions of each kind of court. REF
2002/05/05 — A Brief View of the Constitution of the
United States, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1831) — Introduction to
the Constitution for students and foreigners. REF
2002/04/18 — Union Now, Clarence K. Streit (1939)
— Classic treatise on international conflict and federalism. REF
2002/04/14 — Discourse on Voluntary Servitude,
Étienne De La Boétie (1548, tr. Harry Kurz 1942) — People
are ultimately responsible for their servitude, and non-violent resistance can
win their freedom. REF
2002/04/10 — A living constitution or fundamental
law?, Herman Belz (1998) — American constitutionalism in
historical perspective. REF
2002/03/09 — Cato (A Tragedy in Five Acts), Joseph
Addison (prem. 1713) — Play about Cato the Younger, which inspired the
Founders, especially George Washington. REF
2002/03/04 — The Student Council, Harry C. McKown
(1944) — Classic treatise on the subject that the webmaster used to draft
a student constitution in high school. REF
2002/02/16 — Criminal Libel and the Duty of Juries,
Joseph Towers (1764, 1784), Francis Maseres (1792) — Three essays on the
right of defendants, especially in criminal libel cases, to have the jury
decide the law as well as the fact issues. REFI
2002/01/14 — The Elements of the Art of Packing, As
Applied to Special Juries, Particularly in Cases of Libel Law, Jeremy
Bentham (written 1809, published 1821) — Critical treatise on abuses of
the English jury system and ways to reform it, which provides a historical
background to practices that continue to this day. The first publisher in 1817
of excerpts from this work was prosecuted twice for doing so, and the second
three times, but in each attempt, juries acquitted them. REF
2002/01/07 — Sources of the Constitution of the United
States, C. Ellis Stevens (1894) — Traces each of the key
provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights to their historical
sources. REF
2001/12/20 — The Law of Treason in the United
States, James Willard Hurst (1945, 1971) — The Constitution
imposes strict limits on what can be punished and how it can be
proven. REF
2001/12/20 — Hurst's Law of Treason, Introduction
by Jon Roland, Published in University of West Los Angeles Law Review,
Vol. 34, 2002. A
2001/12/15 — Conflict of Criminal Laws, Edward S.
Stimson (1936) — Jurisdiction for a criminal offense is limited to the
territory where the offender is when the offense is committed, not where the
effects occur. REFI
2001/09/16 — The New Organon (Novum Organum),
Francis Bacon (1620), tr. Spedding. et al. — Includes The Great
Instauration and Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental
HistoryREF
2001/09/01 — The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan
Revolution: 1625-1660, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, ed. (1906) REF
2001/08/28 — New Views of the Constitution of the United
States, John Taylor (1823). REF
2001/08/15 — Selected Political Writings of Voltaire,
(~1764) — Includes The Philosophy of History and A Treatise on
Toleration. REF
2001/08/12 — De Republica Anglorum, Thomas Smith
(1565, 1583). REF
2001/08/07 — The American Republic: its Constitution,
Tendencies, and Destiny, O. A. Brownson (1866). REF
2001/07/24 — Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill
(1863). REF
2001/06/24 — Politica, Johannes Althusius (1614,
Abr. & tr. Frederick S. Carney) REF
2001/06/22 — Selected Political Works of John Milton
— Includes Areopagitica (1644), Tenure of Kings and
Magistrates (1649), and Defense of the People of England
(1651). REF
2001/06/11 — Sources of English Constitutional History:
600-1937, Carl Stephenson & Frederick George Marcham
(1937). REF
2001/03/22 — The Origins of Modern
Constitutionalism, Francis D. Wormuth (1949). REF
2001/02/16 — The Elements of Law Natural and
Politic, Thomas Hobbes (1640). REF
2001/02/15 — The Law of War and Peace, Hugo
Grotius (1625). REF
2001/02/14 — Against Writs of Assistance, James
Otis, 1761 February 24. REF
2001/02/13 — WDisquisition on
Government, John C. Calhoun (1831). REFI
2001/01/31 — Constitutionalism: Ancient and
Modern, Charles Howard McIlwain (1947). REF
2000/11/18 — The Principles of Morals and
Legislation, Jeremy Bentham (1781). REF
2000/11/09 — Of Crimes and Punishments, Cesare
Beccaria (1764). EF
2000/10/13 — Selected
Works, Harvey Wheeler. F
2000/09/24 — Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment was to
Protect All Rights, Jon Roland. A
2000/09/08 — The Revival of Natural Law Concepts,
Charles Grove Haines (1930). REF
2000/08/31 — The Principles of Natural and Politic
Law, J. Burlamaqui (1748, tr. Thomas Nugent 1752). REF
2000/07/02 — Points of Rebellion, by William O.
Douglas. REF
2000/06/14 — Public Safety or Bills of Attainder?,
Jon Roland. Published in University of West Los Angeles Law Review, Vol.
34, 2002, and republished in Vol. 35, 2003. A
2000/06/05 — Man the Reformer, Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1841). REF
2000/03/30 — On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to
Natural Law, Samuel Pufendorf (1673, 1682 tr. Frank Gardner
Moore). REF
2000/03/25 — Art of War, Sun Tzu (475-221
BC). EF
2000/03/24 — Plato Redivivus, Henry Neville
(1681). REF
2000/03/15 — Selected Works of Thomas Jefferson —
Includes complete Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Ellery
Bergh, ed., 19 vol. (1905). REF
2000/03/14 — Selected Works of Walter Moyle, (~1696-1721,
pub. 1796). REF
2000/03/07 — Second Amendment Law
Library. F
2000/03/03 — WSelected Works of the
Levellers (1645-9) — Includes An Agreement of the Free People of
England. REFI
2000/02/24 — Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels (1848). REF
2000/02/24 — The Man versus the State, Herbert
Spencer (1884). EF
2000/02/24 — The Doctrine of Fascism, Benito
Mussolini (1932). REF
2000/02/23 — Utopia, Thomas More
(1516). REF
2000/02/23 — The Moral Equivalent of War, William
James (1906). REF
2000/01/19 — Selected Political Works of Richard Price
— Includes Civil Liberty (1776) and Importance of the American
Revolution (1784). REF
2000/01/17 — Six Books of the Commonwealth, Jean
Bodin (~1590 tr. Richard Knolles 1606, tr. & abr. M.J. Tooley
1955). REF
2000/01/13 — Relectiones, Franciscus de Victoria
(lect. 1532, first pub. 1557) — Includes De Indis and De iure
belli. REF
1999/12/13 — Undermining the Constitution, Thomas
James Norton (1950). REF
1999/11/05 — The Virginia Report, J.W. Randolph,
ed. (1850) — Includes the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 and
the Virginia Resolution of 1798. REFI
1999/10/18 — The Prince, Niccolò
Machiavelli (1513). EF
1999/10/13 — Art of War, Niccolò
Machiavelli (1520). REF
1999/10/12 — Discourses on Livy, Niccolò
Machiavelli (1517). REF
1999/10/03 — LaRosa Reports, by Benedict D. LaRosa (1994,
95). REF
1999/09/27 — Votescam, by James & Kenneth
Collier. REFI
1999/09/17 — Documentary History of the Bill of Rights, Jon
Roland. REF
1999/09/11 — Militia Treatises, James B. Whisker
— Includes The Militia (1992) and The American Colonial
Militia (1997). EF
1999/08/27 — WA Defense
of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America,
John Adams (1787-89). REF
1999/08/08 — Questions of Public Law, Cornelius
van Bynkershoek (1737). RE
1999/08/06 — Federal Usurpation, Franklin Pierce
(1908). REF
1999/08/04 — The Constitution of the United States: Its
History, Application, and Construction, Chapter 5: Legislative Powers,
Chapter 25: Police Power, David K. Watson (1910). REF
1999/07/29 — Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (Defense of
Liberty Against Tyrants), "Junius Brutus" (Orig. Fr. 1581, Eng. tr.
1622, 1689)REF
1999/07/28 — Introduction to the Metaphysics of
Morals, Immanual Kant (1785), tr. W. Hastie (1785). EF
1999/07/28 — Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of
Morals, Immanual Kant (1785), tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
(1785). EF
1999/07/27 — Selected Writings of Thomas Paine —
Includes Common Sense (1776) and Rights of Man
(1792).. REF
1999/07/26 — Selected Works of Edmund
Burke. REF
1999/07/24 — The Law of Nations, Emmerich de
Vattel (1758). REF
1999/07/20 — The Grand Jury, George J. Edwards
(1906). REFI
1999/07/08 — The New Atlantis, Francis Bacon
(1626). REF
1999/07/04 — Constitutional Conventions, Roger
Sherman Hoar (1917). REFI
1999/06/17 — A Discourse of Government with Relation to
Militias, Andrew Fletcher (1698). EF
1999/06/05 — Recent Changes in American Constitutional
Theory, John W. Burgess (1923). REF
1999/03/05 — A Vindication of the Rights of
Women, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792). REF
1999/02/20 — An Essay on the History of Civil Society,
Adam Ferguson (1767). REF
1999/02/08 — The Subjection of Women, John Stuart
Mill (1869). REF
1999/02/06 — | A David
Hoffman, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror,
1998, Feral House Pr. EF
1999/02/03 — Manual of Parliamentary
Practice, Thomas Jefferson (1811). REF
1998/11/20 — How to render documents, Jon
Roland. A
1998/10/12 — The Spirit of Laws, Charles de
Montesquieu, (1748, tr. Thomas Nugent 1752). REF
1998/09/03 — The Commonwealth of Oceana, James
Harrington (1656). EF
1998/08/26 — The Social Contract, Jean Jacques
Rousseau (1762). REF
1998/08/25 — A Discourse on Political Economy,
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1755). REF
1998/08/25 — A Discourse on the Origin of
Inequality, Jean Jacques Rousseau (1754). REF
1998/07/28 — Political Treatise, Baruch de
Spinoza (1677). EF
1998/02/08 — A View of the Constitution, William
Rawle (1829). REF
1997/12/26 — Code of Hammurabi (~1700
BCE). EF
1997/09/05 — WThe Debates in the
Several Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,
Jonathan Elliot (1836). REF
1997/09/03 — Of the Original Contract, David Hume
(1748). REF
1997/08/27 — Politics, Aristotle (350
BC). EF
1997/08/04 — WCommentaries on
American Law, by James Kent (1826). REF
1997/07/22 — Commentaries on the Constitution of the
United States, by Joseph Story (1833). E
1997/05/20 — Madison's Notes on the Debates in the
Federal Convention of 1787. REF
1996/09/29 — Freedom's Frontier — Atlantic
Union Now, by Clarence K. Streit. REFI
1996/09/03 — Robert's Rules of Order
Revised (1915). REFI
1996/08/04 — Bouvier
Law Dictionary. EF
1996/07/02 — Let's Revive Private Prosecutions, Jon
Roland. A
1996/07/02 — Brief on Private Prosecutions, Jon
Roland. A
1996/05/12 — Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
— Selected decisions with commentaties.
1996/05/03 — U.S. State Constitutions and Web Sites
— Directory of links to all 50 Web sites, some local copies of state
constitutions.
1996/04/24 — National Constitutions — Collection of
links to national constitutions, both remote and local.
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Electoral
2010 — Candidate for Texas Attorney
General, Libertarian Party.
2006 — Candidate for Texas Attorney
General, Libertarian Party.
2002 — Candidate for Texas Attorney
General, Libertarian Party.
Feb.-May, 1974 — Ran for Democrat nomination to U.S. House of
Representatives in the Texas 23rd District against incumbent Abraham "Chick"
Kazen, Jr., in which corruption of the incumbent was the main issue. Got about
37% of the vote.
Jun.-November, 1972 — Write-in campaign for U.S. House of
Representatives from Texas 23rd Congressional District.
Mar. 1972 — Attended organizing conference of International
Association for Federal Union at Ditchley Conference Center, England, as one of
the five founders. After conference, visited supporting members of parliaments
of 13 democratic member nations of NATO.
Nov. 1971-Mar. 1972 — Organized what was to become International
Association for Federal Union, with sponsorship of about 22% of the members of
the U.S. Congress and similar percentages of members of the parliaments of 13
democratic NATO nations.
Mar. 1970-Jul. 1972 — Lobbied in Washington, DC, for various
public interest causes, including Atlantic Union and ecological
conservation.
Military Service
1967-70 — U.S. Air Force, Air Traffic Control Officer. Stationed
mainly at Ft. Campbell, Ky.
Education
Jun. 1967 — Graduated U. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, B.S. in
mathematics, with minors in physics and philosophy. National Merit
Scholar.
Jun. 1962 — Graduated Seguin High School. High-ranking male
student. Organized student movement to reform student government and student
newspaper.
A bio showing Roland's political development can be found
here.