Shaping the Electoral College Part III
Subtitle: June 2nd. Delegates once again met in committee, the committee of the whole, a parliamentary device that allows a more open exchange of views without the urgency of a… Read more »
Tag: George Washington
After President Trump
If President Donald J. Trump (PDJT) keeps up with the winning, he’ll be the toughest presidential act to follow since George Washington. Like General Washington, PDJT didn’t come up through… Read more »
Article V Congressional Amendments or a Convention of States?
In the latter half of 1788 the man whom history praised as the “Father of the Constitution” opposed an Article V general convention of the states. Recall from last week’s… Read more »
A Senate of the States: June 14th – June 18th, 1787
June 14. William Patterson (NJ), spooked by the developing Virginia Plan, asked for a one-day adjournment to work on an improved federal design. June 15. He submitted the New Jersey/Patterson… Read more »
On Corruption and Government – Part I Niccolo’ Machiavelli
The Roman historian Titus Livius (59BC – 17AD), better known as Livy, wrote, “History is full of fine things to take as models, and base things, rotten through and through,… Read more »
Whatever Happened to the Articles of Confederation? Part III
As Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington knew like no other man of the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation (AC). From the despair at Valley Forge in 1777-78,… Read more »
The Problem with Representation
As opposed to corruption of the US Senate, I’ve paid little attention over the course of this blog to the House of Representatives. The House isn’t involved with high profile… Read more »
The New Americana vs. James Madison
Raise your hand if you knew that James Madison opposed the second method in Article V to amend the Constitution. The New Americana (TNA) recently published a misleading and insult-laden… Read more »
Donald Trump: The Machiavellian Man
America 2016 is in a bad place. Our once republic of laws, in which carefully designed institutions served the noble ends enumerated in the Preamble to the Constitution, has been… Read more »
Dictators and Republics, Part II
When finances went beyond miserable, and Congress could not supply adequate food, shelter, clothing to his troops, Congress advised General Washington to plunder what he needed from the local populace…. Read more »