A Senate of the States: June 1st – June 6th, 1787
On the first and second days of June 1787, the Committee of the Whole grappled with the 7th Resolution of the Virginia Plan: “that a national Executive be instituted, to… Read more »
Author Archives: Rodney Dodsworth
A Senate of the States: May 25th – May 31st, 1787
In this series I will relate the debates at the Federal Convention surrounding the structure and responsibilities of the US Senate. We’ll find that the Framers assigned the new government… Read more »
Join the State Legislators Article V Caucus
I’ve found the State Legislators Article V Caucus website to be an invaluable resource for keeping up with the latest goings-on in the Article V Convention of States movement. Anyone… Read more »
On the Right to Vote Part V
Subtitle: Equal Protection – Doing Harm by Doing Good. Recall from Parts I & II, and Article I § 2 of the Constitution, the states determine voter qualifications to the… Read more »
On the Right to Vote Part IV
Subtitle: Voting isn’t a civil right. It began as a simple clause in Article I § 2. Whoever votes for members to the most numerous house in a state legislature… Read more »
On the Right to Vote Part III
Subtitle: The Wisdom of the 14th Amendment. After a quick look at Section 1, this squib takes a closer read of Sections 2 & 3 of the 14th Amendment. We’ll… Read more »
On the Right to Vote – Part II
From our earliest colonial times society expected freeholders, those self-sufficient men, to participate in government. At a minimum that meant voting for local, colonial/state, and federal officials. Only those with… Read more »
On the Right to Vote – Part I
In our Declaration, which itemizes certain self-evident rights among innumerable others, consent of the governed is the just basis of government, whose purpose is to secure our rights. Consequently, it… Read more »
American Aristocracy
On June 11th, 1788 at the Virginia Ratifying Convention to the Constitution of the United States, Anti-Federalist George Mason remarked in reference to the House of Representatives, “They must form… Read more »
Direct Election of Senators and the Silent Artillery of Time
I am regularly taken aback by those who think our freedoms should depend on the character of those we elect to political office. If such men exist, then a simple… Read more »