Not Progressive, But a Retrograde Government
Article V Blog – April 5th 2016. As we get worked up over the November elections, it is worthwhile to step back a moment from politics and take a look… Read more »
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Rationalized Plunder – Scotus and the General Welfare
Article V Blog – April 2nd 2016. A little known scotus decision from 1937 set the stage for our accelerating slide into national bankruptcy. In Helvering v. Davis, an intimidated… Read more »
Natural Law – Not Just a Catholic Thing
I’m reading a book about the Natural Law philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 50 Questions on the Natural Law, Charles E. Rice (Ignatius Press 1999) of Notre Dame Law… Read more »
Dictators and Republics, Part III
By 1945, after a dozen years of the New Deal and WWII, the US more or less accepted arbitrary government intrusion into domestic affairs. Leftist outrages from the 1960s to… Read more »
Dictators and Republics (Part I of III)
Given the seizure of so many powers by the executive branch these past seven years, this is probably not the best time to examine the ancient office of dictator. But,… Read more »
Bernie’s One Man One Vote
Last Tuesday, a Breitbart News column carried a few choice comments from the winner of the Vermont democratic primary, Bernie Sanders. He touted the centuries old tradition of New England-style… Read more »
Islam and the 1st Amendment
Are the tenets and practices of islam protected by the religion and free speech clauses of the 1st Amendment? No. First, no right is unlimited to the point of denying… Read more »
About the Legal and the Just
Modern Leftists have used and abused the term “justice” in too many ways to count. Whether it’s social justice or environmental justice or any one of a plethora of other… Read more »
Algernon Sidney – Republican Martyr II
As an observer and polemicist of the civil society, any civil society, few can surpass Algernon Sidney. Popularly derived governments are associated with occasional tumults and disorders. The people are… Read more »
An Elective Despotism
It’s no secret that over recent decades, vast powers once held by the states and Congress have swirled into the Executive branch. No matter the name or the party, the… Read more »