A Different Take on Federalism Part II
Subtitle – Scotus Guts the 14th Amendment. Independence is one thing, but when applied to government, unchecked independence is another term for tyranny. While the mode of appointment to the… Read more »
Tag: Federalism
A Different Take on Federalism Part I
Subtitle: The Insidious 17th Amendment. The 17th Amendment did to federalism what the 13th Amendment did to slavery. Both are long-gone vestiges of our framing era. Tenth Amendment? States’ rights?… Read more »
The Question of Lawmaking II
Subtitle: Outsourcing the Law. Imagine turning off the news media. Imagine not just turning it off but isolating yourself from it for a month. A fishing and hunting trip without… Read more »
Federalism in the First Congress
Federalism had long rested six feet under when democrats passed Obama’s notorious and deceptively named “Affordable Health Care Act” in March 2010. The states’ reaction illustrated the tragic disconnect between… Read more »
A Senate of the States – The 17th Amendment Part II
Subtitle: Progressives Blow Up the Framers’ Constitution. There is no correlation between majoritarian rule and free government.1 Our Framers wisely limited the democratic element to just one half of one… Read more »
A Senate of the States: June 1st – June 6th, 1787
On the first and second days of June 1787, the Committee of the Whole grappled with the 7th Resolution of the Virginia Plan: “that a national Executive be instituted, to… Read more »
Federalism, Freedom and Diversity Part II
Subtitle: Federalism Thwarts Consolidated Government. Federalism describes the vertical division of power between the national and state governments. When Constitutional government is limited to its enumerated powers by a federal… Read more »
Federalism, Freedom and Diversity Part I
Can an extensive nation keep free government, promote diversity and avoid centralization? In 1787-1788, the Anti-Federalists didn’t think so and the Federalists couldn’t be sure. Charles de Montesquieu (1689 –… Read more »
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments: Part IV
John Trenchard wrote in 1698 that government was a mere piece of clockwork, acting in the manner of its construction. The art of the politician, therefore, was to ensure that… Read more »
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments: The Federalist II
I’m perplexed that Article V opponents have not, from time to time, embraced Federalist Numbers 49 & 50. Taken together in isolation from 48 and 51, a superficial read of… Read more »