Constitutional Law & Madisonian Thought
Originalism, textualism, the Declaration of Independence, James Madison’s Federalist No. 10 and No. 51, separation of powers, and judicial review in Federalist No. 78.
My name is Eron Subedi. I am a student from Nepal with a deep obsession with constitutional law, the political thought of James Madison, and the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence. I care about how legal rules and institutions actually work on the ground: how a written constitution limits power, how incentives shape human choices, and why some republics endure while others fall apart.
Alongside constitutional thought and political economy, I also enjoy learning about neuroscience on the side out of pure curiosity about how the brain works. In my public work as Co-Founder and President of the Institute for Educational Accountability (IEA), I try to apply these lessons about transparency, evidence, and institutional oversight to schools in Nepal.
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
Constitutional law is at the center of my intellectual life, and James Madison is a pivotal figure in how I think about politics, law, and human nature. The Declaration of Independence lays down the moral truth that all people are created equal with unalienable natural rights, and that governments derive their just powers only from the consent of the governed.
Madison tackled the hard structural question that followed: how do you build a government strong enough to protect those natural rights, yet constrained enough that it cannot destroy them? His answers in the Virginia Plan, Federalist No. 10, Federalist No. 51, and the Bill of Rights showed that liberty cannot rely on "parchment barriers" alone. It requires separated powers, federalism, and competing institutional incentives.
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Originalism, textualism, the Declaration of Independence, James Madison’s Federalist No. 10 and No. 51, separation of powers, and judicial review in Federalist No. 78.
How rules and government policies alter incentives, create unintended consequences, and force trade-offs between individual liberty, public welfare, and administrative efficiency.
A side interest I pursue simply because I enjoy understanding how biological mechanisms work: action potentials, synaptic signaling, and cellular energy production.
Whether I am reading a constitutional opinion, examining a policy argument, or reading about cellular signaling, I want to see how one step causes the next. I value steady daily effort over bursts of motivation, and thoughtful disagreement over people agreeing with me just to be agreeable.
I read widely in history, diplomacy, politics, law, and the development of institutions, gravitating toward authors who explain complex subjects with precision and analytical distance.