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 »
Tag: Article V
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 »
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 »
Toward an Annual Article V State Amendments Convention Part I
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 »
Scotus’ Unconstitutional Lawmaking and Article V
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, Scotus & The Hierarchy of Law
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 »
Government, Virtue & Education Part II
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 »