Republican Upkeep and Renewal
There isn’t a worldly creation that doesn’t need continual upkeep and renewal. Examples abound. Without regular maintenance to our autos, homes, marriages, bodies and souls, they will degrade and eventually… Read more »
Article I Section 8: Means to Ends
Our 18th century Framers were precise grammarians. They spent months debating in the stuffy Philadelphia state house to thrash out every concept, idea, detail, clause and yes, punctuation, that ended up in… Read more »
The Destructive Administrative State
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee recently took testimony regarding the dangers posed by an ever expanding administrative state, especially in the hands of a ‘pen and phone’ president… Read more »
Born of Freedom
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a great moral and political philosopher of the twentieth century who wrote and spoke extensively about the threats that secularism, materialism and coercive social engineering by… Read more »
Thoughts on Our Corrupted Presidential Election Process
Article V Blog – April 10th 2016. Did the Framers actually bequeath the circa 2016 Animal House presidential election process? Nothing occupied the Federal Convention of 1787 more than debate… Read more »
Restore the Federal Constitution
A common remedy among conservatives for the ills of our nation is to just enforce the constitution we have. Elect enough Tea Party conservatives and freedom will be restored. If… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Not Progressive, But a Retrograde Government
Article V Blog – April 5th 2016. As we get worked up over the November elections, it is worthwhile to step back a moment from politics and take a look… Read more »