Federalism had long rested six feet under when democrats passed Obama’s notorious and deceptively named “Affordable Health Care Act” in March 2010. The states’ reaction illustrated the tragic disconnect between… Read more »
Subtitle: Progressives Blow Up the Framers’ Constitution. Despite the lessons of history, Progressives promote ever more democracy, which, unless tempered and limited, is like turning one’s household over to the… Read more »
Subtitle: Progressives Blow Up the Framers’ Constitution. There is no correlation between majoritarian rule and free government.1 Our Framers wisely limited the democratic element to just one half of one… Read more »
Subtitle: Progressives Blow Up the Framers’ Constitution. In continuance of the Senate of the States series the next three squibs leave the Federal Convention and visit the decades leading to… Read more »
Presidential Elections. Little over a week before the close of the federal convention, the senate was still responsible for appointing a president should no one obtain a majority, or if… Read more »
This last stretch, from August 7th onward, was an endurance test. The summer dragged on and so did most of the delegates. Long hours in convention plus committee work for… Read more »
The convention adjourned July 26th to offer time for a Committee of Detail to smooth the resolutions passed to date. In addition to its assigned duty, it occasionally added what… Read more »
Since delegates resolved, on July 16th, the most contentious issue of the convention, equality of state suffrage in the senate, they quickly hammered out over twenty other fundamental resolutions in… Read more »
The Connecticut Compromise. Roger Sherman of Connecticut is another delegate largely forgotten by history. Born to a self-described ‘low condition’, he started off as a shoemaker, subsequently founded prosperous mercantile… Read more »
As of this Saturday in mid-July, the familiar enumeration of specific powers in Article I § 8 and prohibitions in Sections 9 & 10 didn’t exist. Delegates had agreed to… Read more »