The Question of Lawmaking
I can hear the eyes glazing over. From Article I § 1 “We the People,” in a straightforward sentence loaned limited lawmaking powers to a Congress of the United States…. Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Article V and Rational Revolution
Must revolution be violent? Must revolution upend an older society and replace it with a new one? Wouldn’t a 21st century restoration of free American government without resort to violence… Read more »
Give the Anti-Federalists Their Due
Riot and mayhem welcomed the draft Constitution when it made the Philadelphia newspapers. Advocates of the new plan held a majority in the Pennsylvania legislature, then in the last days… Read more »
The Great Gamble – Our Beloved Constitution
Subtitle: On Factions III. In 1787, the future of free government was dim. The spectacle of insurrection in Massachusetts, the state with the unquestionably best constitution, did not bode well… Read more »
On Factions II
Our Constitution confronted and minimized the dangerous consequences of factions made possible by overly democratic governments. To the nationalists at the Federal Convention of 1787, the measure of a free… Read more »