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 »
The Sounds of Baseball
There’s nothing like the sounds of baseball. Whether one is a player in the batter’s box, the outfield, or sitting in the stands or listening on the radio or internet… Read more »
Why the Electoral College is Bad for America – Part II
A book by George C. Edwards III, 2004. Criticism of the status quo is easy. What is harder is to create a better alternative.1 I confess to having little patience… Read more »
Why the Electoral College is Bad for America – Part I
A book by George C. Edwards III, 2004. Democracy is always an easy sell. If you admire democracy, if you feel that America is or should be a democracy, you’ll… Read more »
Shaping the Electoral College Part XIV
Subtitle: September 6th & 7th. Putting it all together. With an eye on keeping separation of powers and preventing corruption of the executive branch, our Framers on September 6th 1787… Read more »