You Say You Want a Revolution?
Our governing system no longer serves its intended purpose, to secure the blessings of liberty. A casual read of the Constitution reveals our government’s wholesale departure from it. Congress gaffs… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2016
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 »
Algernon Sidney – Republican Martyr I
Do a wiki search of Algernon Sidney. Sidney was a contemporary of today’s better-known John Locke. Both lived in a tumultuous and dangerous latter 17th century Stuart England. Like Locke,… Read more »
My Ideal Reader
I suppose my ideal reader was burned by liberalism. This isn’t to say that those never immersed in Leftist moral relativism since an early age cannot relate, for they surely… Read more »
Article V – Means and Ends of Government
Yes, the ends justify the means. Nothing but the ends can justify the means. Perhaps better put, the ends justify means proportioned to certain ends. Being born in equality, we… Read more »
Forgotten Republicanism
Not long ago, I watched a few minutes of a Georgetown Law School confab on the last Supreme Court session. It made me angry. What I took away reinforced my belief that… Read more »
Over 400 Applications – Where the Call to Convention?
Once congress receives applications from 2/3 of the states, it is duty bound to call a convention. Over 400 applications have been submitted. Where is the call to convention? Check… Read more »
An Elective Despotism
It’s no secret that over recent decades vast powers once held by the states and Congress swirled into the Executive branch. No matter the name or the party, the next… Read more »
Our Declaration – Real Progress
But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. Thomas Jefferson What did Jefferson mean? What of this thing… Read more »
John Locke & Natural Law
It wasn’t until I read Locke’s Second Treatise that so much of the Declaration came into better focus. Peter Laslett (Locke -Two Treatises of Government, Cambridge University Press) did a… Read more »