{"id":331,"date":"2019-09-28T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T21:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:54","slug":"is-the-constitution-a-power-of-attorney-or-a-corporate-charter-a-commentary-on-a-great-power-of-attorney-understanding-the-fiduciary-constitution-by-gary-lawson-and-guy-seidman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-17-number-2-summer-2019\/is-the-constitution-a-power-of-attorney-or-a-corporate-charter-a-commentary-on-a-great-power-of-attorney-understanding-the-fiduciary-constitution-by-gary-lawson-and-guy-seidman\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Constitution a Power of Attorney or a Corporate Charter? A Commentary on \u201cA Great Power of Attorney\u201d: Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution by Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their stimulating book,<em> \u201cA Great Power of Attorney\u201d: Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution<\/em>, Professors Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman argue that: (1) the Constitution of the United States is a power of attorney, or at least use-fully analogized to a power of attorney; (2) although the United States of America is a legal corporation, the Constitution of the United States is not a corporate charter; and (3) the Necessary and Proper Clause is best understood as a narrow incidental powers clause. In this commentary, I dispute all three claims and explain why I believe Lawson and Seidman are mistaken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/09\/17-2-Mikhail.pdf\">Keep Reading Is the Constitution a Power of Attorney or a Corporate Charter? A Commentary on \u201cA Great Power of Attorney\u201d: Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution by Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their stimulating book, \u201cA Great Power of Attorney\u201d: Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution, Professors Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman argue that: (1) the Constitution of the United States is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"parent":309,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions\/334"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}