Shaping the Presidency Part VI
Subtitle: July 17th and 19th. No other topic at the Federal Convention, our Article II chief Executive, demanded more time and debate. Our Framers needed some sixty votes to arrive… Read more »
Shaping the Presidency Part V
Subtitle: June 9th. Our Framers were not about to substitute one national tyrant with another. All had lived under the abuses of George III and his royal governors. Less well-known… Read more »
Shaping the Presidency Part IV
Subtitle: June 4th. Benjamin Franklin – “The first man at the helm will be a good one.” The road to the Framers’ Electoral College was . . . arduous. At… Read more »
Shaping the Presidency Part III
Subtitle: June 2nd. Delegates once again met in committee, the committee of the whole, a parliamentary device that allows a more open exchange of views without the urgency of a… Read more »
Shaping the Presidency Part II
Subtitle: June 1st. As with the three other major institutions of their Constitution, (House, Senate, Judiciary) our Framers were careful to properly match electors to the Electoral College. It wasn’t… Read more »
Shaping the Presidency Part I
Not until the waning days of the Philadelphia Convention did our Framers complete their plan of the Electoral College. In contrast, Article I elections to Congress and Article III appointments… Read more »
Love of Country – Article V
Why do patriots love their country? Like love of oneself and family, love of country is a natural emotion. From a rational standpoint, what is not to like and love… Read more »
Squad Terror
Subtitle: Whose Morality? When I was a teenager I remember what passed for wisdom from the older college kids: “Hey man, everyone knows you can’t legislate morality.” I wasn’t comfortable… Read more »
Last Gasp of Republics
Subtitle: Collapse the Rule of Law. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), winner of two Pulitzers, gave an assessment on the demise of nations in world history: “When a nation goes down, or… Read more »
Deep-Six Stare Decisis
Subtitle: We’ve Always Done it This Way. Long ago in another life, my first boss told me the quickest way to get fired was to defend an existing procedure with,… Read more »