A Foreign Spectator’s View of the Constitution
As colonists, we were proud to be English subjects, the freest people in the world. Our revolution was against Crown corruption of a wonderful system that was seeping from England… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Learning Locke: More on Cato’s Letters
As touched upon in Part I, and against the backdrop of an orchestrated South Sea Bubble, subsequent economic crash, and unpunished stock-jobbers, Cato interwove Lockean concepts regarding the laws of… Read more »
Fear Not A Runaway Article V State Amendments Convention
A government designed to secure our unalienable rights has become something of a black-hole that devours liberty. In the sum total of our three national branches, fewer than 1,500 (One… Read more »
Learning Locke: An Introduction to Cato’s Letters
Thomas Jefferson famously adapted key passages of John Locke’s Second Treatise in his draft Declaration of Independence. An 18th century gentleman could hardly regard himself as learned without the ability… Read more »
A Balanced Budget Amendment Convention: The Path to Free Government
Free Government is that happy condition wherein government respects and protects the unalienable, Natural Rights of the nation, and makes no law without its consent. Under this simple guidance, government… Read more »
Article V Blog Dedication
To my chagrin, I have often used a term this year which I haven’t defined since my first blog post last September: This blog is dedicated to the renewal of… Read more »
The Anti-Constitution
A common concern among Article V opponents is fear that a convention of the states to propose constitutional amendments will result in an oppressive constitution. Instead, all we need to… Read more »
The Necessity of Confederal Government
The first objection from Anti-Federalists was that the extensive territory of 1780s America could not support republican government. Citing a widely respected Charles De Montesquieu, republican government requires the consent… Read more »
Wading Into Left-Speak: The Closing of the American Mind
I don’t know how I managed for so long to put off reading Allan Bloom’s 1986 The Closing of the American Mind. I’m only through the Preface and Introduction, and… Read more »