Restore the Federal Constitution
A common remedy among conservatives for the ills of our nation is to just enforce the constitution we have. Elect enough Tea Party conservatives and freedom will be restored. If… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2016
The 17th Amendment – A Mistake That Keeps on Giving
Article V Blog – April 8th 2016. Our previously free republic continues to reel from a one hundred and three year old mistake: the 17th Amendment. Pardon me if I… Read more »
Pity the Poor Senator
Article V Blog – April 7th 2016. Consider the awful lot of today’s typically abused senator. He or she is pulled this way and that by dozens of interests. Every… Read more »
Just Enforce the Constitution We Have
A contingent among those who oppose an Article V state convention to propose Constitutional amendments declare that all that need be done is just enforce the Constitution we have. Well,… Read more »
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 »
Toward an Annual Article V State Amendments Convention Part I
The Framers envisioned a free people would keep and improve their republic through Article V and not through the social justice whims of nine unaccountable lawyers. Enlightenment philosophers and our… Read more »
Scotus’ Unconstitutional Lawmaking and Article V
Article V Blog – April 3rd 2016. It is no secret that American courts have wandered far outside the business of adjudicating. Every summer, the nation holds its breath in… Read more »
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 »
Article V, Scotus & The Hierarchy of Law
Article V Blog – April 1st 2016. “Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.” – St. Thomas Aquinas… Read more »