Civil Rights, Scotus, and Article V
Subtitle: Judge Bork’s Inkblot. Who or what is the source of civil rights? What are civil rights? They must be important or there wouldn’t be a US Commission on Civil… Read more »
Remnant Institutions – British House of Lords and US Senate Part II
Our Framers famously corrected several shortcomings in the English approach to lawmaking. In England, the same people who write statutes also amend the English constitution. We can thank the Framers… Read more »
Remnant Institutions – British House of Lords and US Senate Part I
The House of Lords. There’s an unmistakable correlation between the decline of the British and American middle houses of government and the loss of liberty in their respective countries. Today’s… Read more »
Article V – Dynamic Federalism
Over a long radio career, Rush Limbaugh regularly slammed the Congressional Budget Office for its static analysis of tax cuts. It is natural to think in linear terms. If Congress… Read more »
Eternal Vigilance and Article V
Sovereignty: Use it or lose it. Sovereignty unattended is sovereignty lost, and We the People have precious little of it left. I challenge anyone to argue that our sovereignty isn’t… Read more »
John Locke on Trust and Government
Subtitle: Toward an Annual Article V Convention. To most historians of the 17th Century Stuart era, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government rationalized the Glorious Revolution of 1688. At least… Read more »
Machiavelli, President Trump, and the Deep State
Subtitle: A Government of Others. Chapter 16 to Book I of Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy is a handy field guide to President Trump’s cagefight with the Deep State. Few politicians… Read more »
Algernon Sidney and the Deep State
History abounds with good things to emulate and horrid things to avoid. The first thing to emulate in free government is to assume everyone in it is a rogue, a… Read more »
To Guarantee a Republican Form of Government
Scotus: The Third Political Branch. When Alexander Hamilton penned the 85th Federalist, Concluding Remarks, in August 1788, eleven states had ratified the Constitution. While there was no practical need to… Read more »
Progressing the Constitution – One Man One Vote V
If equal protection of the law commands electoral districts of equal populations, then most ratifying states violated the 14th Amendment the moment it went into effect in 1868. In 1962… Read more »