Article V and The Machiavellian Moment
Through a series of lessons arranged in three Books, the thrust of Niccolo’ Machiavelli‘s Discourses on Livy deals with how nations in general, and republics in particular, can design, keep,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Grand Juries and Free Government
Like you, I listened slack-jawed as James Comey argued that somehow there is an unbridgeable legal divide between Hillary’s extreme recklessness and indictable gross negligence. Bravo Sierra meters pegged nationwide…. Read more »
Article V For a Republic Worth Keeping
As I recall from Gibbon, the Western Roman Empire went out with more of a whimper than a bang. By the time of Alaric and his Visigoths in 410 AD,… Read more »
Fearing Government
The spark for this squib is fear, a fear of not just where our once republic is going, but where it is. A government designed to “establish justice, insure domestic… Read more »
More Democracy, Less Liberty
Judging from the outcome of recent federal court cases involving Voter ID, one could be forgiven for believing two things. First, there is an unqualified right to vote. Second, the… Read more »
Federal Agencies & Standing Armies
Alexander Hamilton, a man tagged in modern times with authoritarian inclinations, left no doubt what the sovereign people were to do in the face of ongoing oppression. The great vehicle… Read more »
The National Popular Vote: Vicious Democracy
Democracy stinks. History is littered with short-live democracies that cratered between the bloodlettings of factions going at each other’s throats. Our Framers were well aware of their shortcomings from the… Read more »
Stop the Suffering
There are two broad factions that stand in opposition to the people’s use of their sovereign capacity in Article V to stop and reverse the accelerating despotism of the executive… Read more »
An Appeal to Union
When various objections to the draft Constitution arose in the fall of 1787, James Madison asked his fellow citizens to shun despair. The future was bright if Americans did not… Read more »
Dealing With Constitutional Change
If we pause for a moment and consider the grand, historic sweep of governing forms in England and America, the conclusion must be that action is needed now to save… Read more »