The Framers envisioned a free people would keep and improve their republic through Article V and not through the social justice whims of nine unaccountable lawyers. Enlightenment philosophers and our… Read more »
Article V Blog – April 3rd 2016. It is no secret that American courts have wandered far outside the business of adjudicating. Every summer, the nation holds its breath in… Read more »
Article V Blog – April 2nd 2016. A little known scotus decision from 1937 set the stage for our accelerating slide into national bankruptcy. In Helvering v. Davis, an intimidated… Read more »
Article V Blog – April 1st 2016. “Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.” – St. Thomas Aquinas… Read more »
The Framing generation was realistic about human nature. American constitutional law wasn’t to command the common good, but rather to promote it, which is to lead men gradually toward private… Read more »
We institute government, the Declaration says, to secure our unalienable rights; among them is the pursuit of happiness. Elaborating upon this straightforward idea, the Preamble to the Constitution informs us… Read more »
In England, an assault on the person of the sovereign King was a high crime: treason. In our republic, as in monarchies, high crimes also consist of assaults on the… Read more »
Levin’s book burst on the conservative scene in the summer of 2013. Rush and Hannity gave it two big thumbs up as it climbed the NYT bestseller list. He offered… Read more »
From Charles de Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, “When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils, but by removing the corruption… Read more »
Check out Pope John Paul’s (1920-2005) observation of modern representative government: “Regarding democracies, certain demands which arise within society are sometimes not examined in accordance with criteria of justice and… Read more »