Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
This year the Fourth of July isn't just America's independence day—it's also, ironically, general election day in the old mother country. Over at Discourse Magazine, IJ's own Anthony Sanders uses this coincidence as an opportunity to reflect on the differences between the two countries. Such as: when Americans declared their independence, it ended up not just being from Britain but from the British constitutional system. Parliamentary supremacy was out, written "higher law" constitutions were in. Which meant judicial review was too. Yet, some judges keep wanting to be British, even today.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: British connections with the US of A, old and new. The Supreme Court's affirmation of the ancient common law right of trial by jury in SEC v. Jarkesy and a Fifth Circuit crime caper at the British Consul General's home.
