Wanted – A Congress of the United States
Subtitle: Restore Constitutionalism. In another age not that long ago there were Congresses of the United States. These Congresses of representatives of the people and the states knew their first… Read more »
The Sirens’ Song of the 17th Amendment
Subtitle: Conclusions of Jay S. Bybee – Ulysses at the Mast. Bybee’s 1997 work was my first scholarly exposure to the 17th Amendment. At the time, I admit to no… Read more »
Yes – The Constitution was Necessary
Subtitle: The Matter of the Mississippi River. A not inconsequential percentage of Article V opponents, like those in the John Birch Society, identify as Anti-Federalists. They question the 1780s need… Read more »
Another Reason to Keep the Electoral College – Part II
Subtitle: Nationwide Consensus. People react differently to the term “Federalism.” Some connect it to long-gone slavery, state’s rights, Jim Crow and oppression. Others, like myself, regard it an essential element… Read more »
Musing America’s Fate
Like everyone else, I think about America’s future. Are we near the end of a century-old slide into soft tyranny or is worse yet to come? Can we possibly renew… Read more »
Fear Scotus, not an Article V COS
It’s easy to amend the Constitution. It’s been done dozens of times since WWII. Send the right case with the right litigants at the right time to an adequately Leftist-leaning… Read more »
Shall Presidents Serve at the Pleasure of the Deep State?
Subtitle: Cold Anger and the Article V Verge. Under the color of law and in the tradition of its earliest republican institutions, tyranny thrived in Imperial Rome. Likewise, the Deep… Read more »
Algernon Sidney’s Advice for Article V Opponents
Our Founders’ textbook to revolution was Algernon Sidney’s Discourses Concerning Government. Alongside John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, these famous works were refutations of another influential 17th century book, Patriarcha… Read more »
Machiavelli on the Deep State Conspiracy
In our Constitutional order we find comforts unknown to many nations. We can go about our lives without concern over a matter that often threatened kingdoms since ancient times: succession… Read more »
Crush President Trump’s Hearsay Accusers
Subtitle: Machiavelli on the Greatest Sedition – Whisper Campaigns As opposed to formal charges from a prosecutor, in which the accused has constitutional protections at his disposal, the accused in… Read more »