On Congressional Oversight of Lower Federal Courts
Do Bing or Google search on “Federal Court Blocks President Trump . . . ,“ and you’ll find one lower federal court after another blocked the Trump administration from rescinding… Read more »
My Cheat Sheet to The Federalist Papers
Long ago I made the mistake of wading unprepared into The Federalist Papers. In 1970 your humble blogger was a high school sophomore who bit off more than he could… Read more »
Between the Confederation and the Constitution
Subtitle: Take This or Nothing. At the close of last week’s squib, James Madison and Federalist supporters of the Constitution carried the day in the Confederation Congress. Although Congress did… Read more »
The Constitution and the Confederation Congress
Subtitle: When to Amend? Congress, that poor substitute for an actual government, was on the verge of collapse in 1787. Not a single state complied with the tax requisition of… Read more »
On Secular and Religious Conformity
Subtitle: Deplorables v. the Establishment As the Establishment fights back against the Deplorables who threaten their power, wealth, and social justice schemes, we may do well to consider another era… Read more »
Restore the Framers’ Deliberative Senate
To the extent that the world’s once most deliberative institution performs its duty at all, the US Senate is reactive rather than deliberative. It reacts to crises of the moment… Read more »
Senator Mike Lee & the Article I Project
Thanks to the 17th Amendment, which slowly neutered the senate and eventually the entire congress, an administrative state performs legislative, executive and judicial functions. Congress goes far out of its… Read more »
The Question of Lawmaking II
Subtitle: Outsourcing the Law. Imagine turning off the news media. Imagine not just turning it off but isolating yourself from it for a month. A fishing and hunting trip without… Read more »
Government v. Society
Article V opponents argue that society is too corrupt to trust to a Convention of States. Aren’t the signs all around? School shootings, fatherless homes, muslim no-go zones, barbaric gang… Read more »
Our Constitution: History’s Guide to Free Government
Subtitle: Continuing the March of Folly. The eight Obama years felt something like a sequel to Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly. Didn’t you scream inside every time he usurped… Read more »