Our Remarkable Electoral College
The wisdom of our awkward Electoral College (EC) goes far beyond the matter of relative electoral weight between urban and rural voters. Thank the Framers for doing more than diffusing… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Machiavelli – Dealing with the Deep State Aristocracy
He who draws his sword against the prince must throw away his scabbard – Italian Renaissance maxim. America doesn’t have a classic aristocracy. But, does it have an order set… Read more »
Our Unbalanced Constitution and Article V
Subtitle: John Adams Reconsiders Republican Government. The American Revolution wasn’t a simple colonial rebellion against English imperialism. It was first and foremost a social revolution. We can hardly imagine today… Read more »
Public Virtue & Article V Opponents
The Golden Age of Virtue, which Article V opponents attach to our early republics, never existed. This isn’t to say the literature and political writings by gentry and revolutionary leaders… Read more »
Republics and Dictators
Subtitle: American Dictator. The National Emergencies Act of 1976 is a hand grenade on our Constitutional shelf. Any President can pull the pin. The spark for this squib is the… Read more »