Tacitus: The Annals (II)
I can almost see Tacitus (55-117AD) weep as he wrote of Rome’s transition from a free republic to a despotic empire. Tacitus: After Augustus won over the soldiers with gifts,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2016
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After 115 substantive posts in as many days, I am taking a day off. Instead, I direct your attention to the right-hand sidebar. Email subscription is available. Do not fear… Read more »
Tacitus: The Annals
Not long ago, certainly within the last couple of years, I yielded to the urge to start a squib when the US senate punted another enumerated power to president Obama…. Read more »
The Confessions of Congressman X
If you want to vindicate your worst suspicions of Congress, this book is for you. Simply put, government is a lie. Voters are too ignorant see through the gauze, the… Read more »
Notes on the Virginia Declaration of Rights
In the June 12th, 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights (DOR) are elements familiar to us all, from the Declaration of Independence, later in the Constitution and the first ten amendments… Read more »
Sitting Out the November Congressional Election
Lest anyone jump to an erroneous conclusion, I’ll participate in the upcoming presidential election process and vote for Trump. Since Hillary is the sum of every corrupt quality, every character… Read more »
Our First State Constitutions and Bills of Rights
I recently looked up our early state constitutions and bills of rights with an eye toward clauses that proclaimed the peoples’ sovereign right and duty to closely watch their governments,… Read more »
Of The Laws Which Establish Political Liberty
In Book XI of The Spirit of the Laws, Charles de Montesquieu touched on the nature of liberty and representation in republics. While the term ‘liberty’ is somewhat ambiguous, he… Read more »
Spirit of Governments
On February 18th, 1792, James Madison posted an anonymous squib in his newspaper, the National Gazette. He asked: May not governments be properly divided, according to their predominant spirit and… Read more »
A Presumption of Liberty
This squib goes hand-in-hand with my two earlier posts that made the case for an annual Article V state convention, here and here, to defeat both an out control administrative… Read more »