Article V – Assert our Sovereignty
Use it or lose it. Article V opponents believe America is too corrupt to be trusted with a Convention of the States. They believe We The People fulfilled Ben Franklin’s… Read more »
Tag: Sovereignty
Eternal Vigilance and Article V
Sovereignty: Use it or lose it. Sovereignty unattended is sovereignty lost, and We the People have precious little of it left. I challenge anyone to argue that our sovereignty isn’t… Read more »
Article V and Rational Revolution
Must revolution be violent? Must revolution upend an older society and replace it with a new one? Wouldn’t a 21st century restoration of free American government without resort to violence… Read more »
Article V Opponents and the Question of Sovereignty Part V
In earlier posts, we learned the legal and political sovereign over colonial America was the King-in-Parliament. After independence, both sovereignties relocated to the new state legislatures. From Part IV, the… Read more »
Article V and the Question of Sovereignty Part IV
The Framing generation bequeathed a brilliant governing form to posterity. Perhaps its most notable feature is the separation of powers. Far less well-known, yet just as important, is what the… Read more »
Article V and the Question of Sovereignty Part III
Subtitle: Sovereignty on the Move Sovereignty is absolute. Notwithstanding the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, a person or body is the legal sovereign when he or it has unlimited law-making power,… Read more »
Article V and the Question of Sovereignty Part II
Recall from Part I, the legal sovereign has unlimited, absolute, and supreme law-making power. The supreme law in England, its constitution, is whatever the King-in-Parliament determines it to be. Statutory… Read more »
Article V and the Question of Sovereignty Part I
As President Trump works to undo the outrages of the Pen and Phone President, he will issue executive orders, consult congress, and instruct his cabinet secretaries to reverse the mess… Read more »
Some Notes on the State of Virginia
There’s a tendency among 21st century patriots to assume the foundation of republican free government, conventions of the sovereign people, was known from the moment of independence in 1776. While… Read more »
Whatever Happened to the Articles of Confederation? Part I
Subtitle: The Question of Sovereignty Didn’t the Framers violate the Articles of Confederation (AC) when they drafted the Constitution? Weren’t the AC the supreme law of the land? This is the… Read more »