The 17th Amendment – A Mistake That Keeps on Giving
Article V Blog – April 8th 2016. Our previously free republic continues to reel from a one hundred and three year old mistake: the 17th Amendment. Pardon me if I… Read more »
Category: Article V
Pity the Poor Senator
Article V Blog – April 7th 2016. Consider the awful lot of today’s typically abused senator. He or she is pulled this way and that by dozens of interests. Every… Read more »
Just Enforce the Constitution We Have
A contingent among those who oppose an Article V state convention to propose Constitutional amendments declare that all that need be done is just enforce the Constitution we have. Well,… Read more »
Toward an Annual Article V State Amendments Convention Part I
The Framers envisioned a free people would keep and improve their republic through Article V and not through the social justice whims of nine unaccountable lawyers. Enlightenment philosophers and our… Read more »
Scotus’ Unconstitutional Lawmaking and Article V
Article V Blog – April 3rd 2016. It is no secret that American courts have wandered far outside the business of adjudicating. Every summer, the nation holds its breath in… Read more »
Article V, Scotus & The Hierarchy of Law
Article V Blog – April 1st 2016. “Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.” – St. Thomas Aquinas… Read more »
Government, Virtue & Education Part II
The Framing generation was realistic about human nature. American constitutional law wasn’t to command the common good, but rather to promote it, which is to lead men gradually toward private… Read more »
Government, Virtue & Education
We institute government, the Declaration says, to secure our unalienable rights; among them is the pursuit of happiness. Elaborating upon this straightforward idea, the Preamble to the Constitution informs us… Read more »
High Crimes & Stolen Sovereignty
In England, an assault on the person of the sovereign King was a high crime: treason. In our republic, as in monarchies, high crimes also consist of assaults on the… Read more »
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments
Levin’s book burst on the conservative scene in the summer of 2013. Rush and Hannity gave it two big thumbs up as it climbed the NYT bestseller list. He offered… Read more »