The Confessions of Congressman X
If you want to vindicate your worst suspicions of Congress, this book is for you. Simply put, government is a lie. Voters are too ignorant see through the gauze, the… Read more »
Tag: Article V
Sitting Out the November Congressional Election
Lest anyone jump to an erroneous conclusion, I’ll participate in the upcoming presidential election process and vote for Trump. Since Hillary is the sum of every corrupt quality, every character… Read more »
Our First State Constitutions and Bills of Rights
I recently looked up our early state constitutions and bills of rights with an eye toward clauses that proclaimed the peoples’ sovereign right and duty to closely watch their governments,… Read more »
A Presumption of Liberty
This squib goes hand-in-hand with my two earlier posts that made the case for an annual Article V state convention, here and here, to defeat both an out control administrative… Read more »
Montesquieu on the Corruption of Republics
The corruption of republics typically begins with corruption of its principles. In this squib, Charles de Montesquieu* could equally describe America’s corruption of separation of powers and embrace of populism…. Read more »
Cato’s Letter #115: The Encroaching Nature of Power, Ever to be Watched and Checked
This letter is among Cato’s best. Like Machiavelli in a few of his Discourses on Livy, Cato touches on the nature of despots, and the measures taken by the Roman… Read more »
A Nation in Denial
Men naturally seek to better their conditions and protect what is theirs, among which is their country. I’m continually surprised that so many do not take a look at history,… Read more »
On Natural Law Deniers
“I don’t accept the law of gravity.” “Then I encourage you to jump, sir.” Over the course of a weekend lunch with my wife, we pondered the goodness of craft… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #37: Character of a Good And of an Evil Magistrate, Quoted from Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Cato began his letter of July 15th 1721 with praise for the republican martyr, Algernon Sidney. Just a few decades after Sidney’s execution, open republicanism in Hanoverian England was still… Read more »
To Reclaim our Sovereignty
A visitor to America, say a modern Alexis de Tocqueville, might conclude that the American form of government is despotic. Considering we have presidential elections every four years, our imaginary… Read more »