The Constitution and the Confederation Congress
Subtitle: When to Amend? Congress, that poor substitute for an actual government, was on the verge of collapse in 1787. Not a single state complied with the tax requisition of… Read more »
On Secular and Religious Conformity
Subtitle: Deplorables v. the Establishment As the Establishment fights back against the Deplorables who threaten their power, wealth, and social justice schemes, we may do well to consider another era… Read more »
Restore the Framers’ Deliberative Senate
To the extent that the world’s once most deliberative institution performs its duty at all, the US Senate is reactive rather than deliberative. It reacts to crises of the moment… Read more »
Senator Mike Lee & the Article I Project
Thanks to the 17th Amendment, which slowly neutered the senate and eventually the entire congress, an administrative state performs legislative, executive and judicial functions. Congress goes far out of its… Read more »
The Question of Lawmaking II
Subtitle: Outsourcing the Law. Imagine turning off the news media. Imagine not just turning it off but isolating yourself from it for a month. A fishing and hunting trip without… Read more »
Government v. Society
Article V opponents argue that society is too corrupt to trust to a Convention of States. Aren’t the signs all around? School shootings, fatherless homes, muslim no-go zones, barbaric gang… Read more »
Our Constitution: History’s Guide to Free Government
Subtitle: Continuing the March of Folly. The eight Obama years felt something like a sequel to Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly. Didn’t you scream inside every time he usurped… Read more »
The Question of Lawmaking
I can hear the eyes glazing over. From Article I § 1 “We the People,” in a straightforward sentence loaned limited lawmaking powers to a Congress of the United States…. Read more »
Article V and Rational Revolution
Must revolution be violent? Must men meet on the battlefield to affect change? Must revolution upend an older society and replace it with a new one? Wouldn’t a 21st century… Read more »
Give the Anti-Federalists Their Due
In something of a flashback from the Eagle’s Super Bowl victory, riot and mayhem also welcomed the draft Constitution when it made the Philadelphia newspapers. Advocates of the new plan… Read more »