Democrats, Democracy & Article V
Democrats just love democracy. Who could possibly oppose democracy? Didn’t progressive icon Woodrow Wilson inform the nation that the purpose of the United States was to make the world safe… Read more »
Category: Article V
Toward an Annual Article V State Amendments Convention (II)
Subtitle: Who Shall Determine our Rights? In Part I, I examined how and why an Annual Article V State Amendments Convention should become a regular feature of the American governing… Read more »
Montesquieu on the Corruption of Republics
The corruption of republics typically begins with corruption of its principles. In this squib, Charles de Montesquieu* could equally describe America’s corruption of separation of powers and embrace of populism…. Read more »
Cato’s Letter #115: The Encroaching Nature of Power, Ever to be Watched and Checked
This letter is among Cato’s best. Like Machiavelli in a few of his Discourses on Livy, Cato touches on the nature of despots, and the measures taken by the Roman… Read more »
A Constitution Gone Wrong
On the eve of troubles with George III in the 1760s, His Majesty’s subjects on the North American continent regarded themselves among the luckiest people on earth. Charles De Montesquieu… Read more »
A Nation in Denial
Men naturally seek to better their conditions and protect what is theirs, among which is their country. I’m continually surprised that so many do not take a look at history,… Read more »
On Natural Law Deniers
“I don’t accept the law of gravity.” “Then I encourage you to jump, sir.” Over the course of a weekend lunch with my wife, we pondered the goodness of craft… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #37: Character of a Good And of an Evil Magistrate, Quoted from Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Cato began his letter of July 15th 1721 with praise for the republican martyr, Algernon Sidney. Just a few decades after Sidney’s execution, open republicanism in Hanoverian England was still… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #16: The Leaders of Parties, Their Usual Views . . . *
The full title to this letter from 1720 doesn’t do justice to its content: how the fallen nature of men is concentrated once they become politicians. The outcome of party… Read more »
To Reclaim our Sovereignty
A visitor to America, say a modern Alexis de Tocqueville, might conclude that the American form of government is despotic. Considering we have presidential elections every four years, our imaginary… Read more »