During his short exile from Revolutionary France, a famously corrupt former French Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, glimpsed the ex-US Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, working by candlelight late at night. Talleyrand couldn’t… Read more »
“The American Constitution is an outdated, malfunctioning piece of junk,” wrote Ryan Cooper in a 2018 column for The Week. After the obligatory cheap shot at our Framers for their… Read more »
I am at a loss to understand why the many patriots who defend the natural right of self-defense in the Second Amendment often do not extend this fundamental right to… Read more »
What is the “Judicial Power?”1 It’s worth knowing because the Constitution’s Article III grants all of it to Scotus and inferior courts. Does the Judicial Power extend to striking down… Read more »
Subtitle: Scotus & Morality. Without God and religion you don’t have moral truth, you have moral opinion.1 Unfortunately, when a majority of lawyers on Scotus issue new rights-based opinions, they… Read more »
Subtitle: A Judicial Mess. The Framers considered and rejected a policy-making role for the Scotus. Despite James Madison’s repeated efforts, the federal convention defeated his attempts to attach the Scotus… Read more »
Can liberty be preserved across a continent? In 1787, the historical record said “no.” The Roman and contemporary Russian, Chinese, and Ottoman Empires were glaring examples. Not everyone was buying… Read more »
Subtitle: Scotus – Robert Yates v. Alexander Hamilton. What happened to the Scotus? In this squib, we’ll find the Framers blameless for today’s runaway federal courts. Background. Under the British… Read more »
Subtitle: Black-Robe Disease. The only “living Constitution” is one that is followed; a Constitution whose text is ignored is a dead one.1 Standing over and looking down at the remains… Read more »
Over the next few squibs I will show why Scotus has no Constitutional business fabricating rights. As opposed to its assumed authority to invent rights, it is instead duty-bound to… Read more »