Deletion of Constitutional hardball

Comment: There's nothing new about this – see ''https://www.vox.com/2019/1/1/18139787/rome-decline-america-edward-watts-mortal-republic What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic'', for example.  We don't need a |recentist baseball metaphor for this when there are plenty of other pages already, including
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM)

Comment: No compliance with efore, which creates a series of hurdles before deletion is appropriate, and creates a hierarchy for consideration before imposing the Wikipedia equivalent of capital punishment.  Keeping it will |be wise also
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Bots (WP:B||WP:RAPID)

Comment: If the NOM had done a  they would have noticed.  Searching Google for a definition, the first entries for the subject come from the law schools at Yale, Georgetown University|Georgetown, Columbia University|Columbia and Harvard.  Other  quote those law discussions.  Simply put, its a thing which the article covers, supported by sources.  I'll go further.  This is an example of a frivolous AfD.  I think the NOM should be penalized for wasting our time
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE||WP:RS)

Comment: It seems like  has not been performed, a quick look in Google Books shows plenty of sources https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Legal+syllogism%22+-wikipedia, ditto in Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Legal+syllogism%22. Should easily pass 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE||WP:GNG)