John Locke: On the Dissolution of Government (II)
In view of the increasing failures of national, state, local government from San Jose, CA to Sweden to protect their citizens from thugs, both secular and religious, where do innocent… Read more »
Category: Article V
John Locke: On the Dissolution of Government
The spark for this squib is the failure of western governments to protect the persons and property of their citizens from politically or religiously motivated criminals. Among just a few… Read more »
Phyllis Schlafly vs. Article V
From the 1776 Maryland Declaration of Rights and the 1783 New Hampshire Bill of Rights we are reminded of the proper American attitude toward a government hostile to freedom: The… Read more »
A Rubber-Stamp Senate no More
Picture in your mind’s eye a day when GOP senators ignore the only slightly veiled public threats of the president and the rants of a corrupt media. Imagine a Democrat… Read more »
Tacitus: The Annals
Not long ago, certainly within the last couple of years, I yielded to the urge to start a squib when the US senate punted another enumerated power to president Obama…. Read more »
The Confessions of Congressman X
If you want to vindicate your worst suspicions of Congress, this book is for you. Simply put, government is a lie. Voters are too ignorant see through the gauze, the… Read more »
Notes on the Virginia Declaration of Rights
In the June 12th, 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights (DOR) are elements familiar to us all, from the Declaration of Independence, later in the Constitution and the first ten amendments… Read more »
Our First State Constitutions and Bills of Rights
I recently looked up our early state constitutions and bills of rights with an eye toward clauses that proclaimed the peoples’ sovereign right and duty to closely watch their governments,… Read more »
Spirit of Governments
On February 18th, 1792, James Madison posted an anonymous squib in his newspaper, the National Gazette. He asked: May not governments be properly divided, according to their predominant spirit and… Read more »
A Presumption of Liberty
This squib goes hand-in-hand with my two earlier posts that made the case for an annual Article V state convention, here and here, to defeat both an out control administrative… Read more »