Belonging to Government or to God?
Like me, you probably did an eye-roll when you were a middle school kid and read of the charge in our Declaration of Independence that King George III intended to… Read more »
Author Archives: Rodney Dodsworth
Diversity is Our Demise
Somewhere in the 1980s, “diversity is our strength” made its debut. At the time, I gaffed it off as another Leftist idiocy that would soon fizzle out. How wrong I… Read more »
The Framers’ Senate
Charles de Montesquieu wrote, “At the birth of societies, the rulers of republics establish institutions; and afterwards the institutions mold the rulers.” The institution of the US Senate has indeed… Read more »
Government in Rebellion
The Latin rebellare means renewal of war. When a town or tribe was conquered and terms of peace agreed to, it was in rebellion if it violated its settlement with… Read more »
A Primer to The Preamble of Our Constitution
The government of our creation rarely does any of the things it is supposed to do, and spends enormous sums doing that which it is not empowered to do. The… Read more »
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 »
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 »