In my last post, Professor Randy Barnett described the Left’s conception of We The People as a collective, a single mass that expresses its sovereign will through congress. Here, first… Read more »
This squib began as a review of Professor Randy Barnett’s latest work, Our Republican Constitution. However, once I got into his explication of the two contradictory visions of the Constitution… Read more »
If any one man can be said to have intellectually armed the American colonists for rebellion, it was Algernon Sidney. So thorough was his impact that historians described his posthumously… Read more »
For those not old enough to know, New York City’s crime rate prior to the Mayor Rudy Giuliani era was so bad that a sci-fi movie, Escape From New York (1981)… Read more »
In view of the increasing failures of national, state, local government from San Jose, CA to Sweden to protect their citizens from thugs, both secular and religious, where do innocent… Read more »
The spark for this squib is the failure of western governments to protect the persons and property of their citizens from politically or religiously motivated criminals. Among just a few… Read more »
From the 1776 Maryland Declaration of Rights and the 1783 New Hampshire Bill of Rights we are reminded of the proper American attitude toward a government hostile to freedom: The… Read more »
Many American minds have been twisted by a hundred years of progressivism. A once proud and independent people have become increasingly meek and dependent on the decisions and goodies disbursed… Read more »
A man of great intellectual influence on our founding generation was the late 17th century martyr for freedom, Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). Born the second son in a noble family whose… Read more »
Picture in your mind’s eye a day when GOP senators ignore the only slightly veiled public threats of the president and the rants of a corrupt media. Imagine a Democrat… Read more »