Most of the powers and prohibitions specified in the Constitution concern commercial matters, and conservative jurists should be favorable to restoring this focus.

Outer space has become the next frontier for American national security and business. But instead of advancing American primacy in this realm, the Obama administration has wrongly decided not only to follow a European Union draft “code of conduct” regulating outer space, but also to circumvent the Senate’s central constitutional role in making treaties.

Judging by the past term, the Supreme Court believes strongly in federalism, but the issue most in need of revision is the federal preemption of state law, especially tort law.