The extraordinary longevity of Sparta fascinated 17th and 18th century political writers and philosophers. From Algernon Sidney, to Walter Moyle, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon of Cato’s Letters fame, the idealized… Read more »
From a Renaissance fresco, “Take Rome as your example if you wish to rule a thousand years; follow the common good, and not selfish ends; and give just counsel like… Read more »
Subtitle: What Would the Romans do? Foremost among the reasons I despise the democrat party is its destructive nature. It builds nothing; it exists to destroy. In the name of… Read more »
The Roman historian Titus Livius (59BC – 17AD), better known as Livy, wrote, “History is full of fine things to take as models, and base things, rotten through and through,… Read more »
Where there is government there is corruption. Corruption is a broad term. Perhaps in its simplest meaning it is just a departure from an original design. Various federal statutes set… Read more »
In earlier posts, we learned the legal and political sovereign over colonial America was the King-in-Parliament. After independence, both sovereignties relocated to the new state legislatures. From Part IV, the… Read more »
The Framing generation bequeathed a brilliant governing form to posterity. Perhaps its most notable feature is the separation of powers. Far less well-known, yet just as important, is what the… Read more »
Subtitle: Sovereignty on the Move Sovereignty is absolute. Notwithstanding the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, a person or body is the legal sovereign when he or it has unlimited law-making power,… Read more »
Recall from Part I, the legal sovereign has unlimited, absolute, and supreme law-making power. The supreme law in England, its constitution, is whatever the King-in-Parliament determines it to be. Statutory… Read more »
Convention of States volunteers received an email this morning from COS. The Utah senate recently “refused to act courageously and hold a re-call vote on the Convention of States resolution.”… Read more »