US Constitution’s Twenty-Seventh Amendment: 202 Years in the Making
The First Freedom of the First Amendment is the Freedom of Religion. The Right to Bear Arms is famously in the Second Amendment. The American Bill of Rights has an almost majestic quality by being...
View ArticleConstitutional Question Resolved For a Pay Raise
On April 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison became the first United States president to die in office. The Constitution did not address critical questions regarding succession and the status of Harrison’s...
View ArticleCompact for America Solution to Article V Convention Issues According to the...
The preceding Part I and Part II, containing Exhibits A through G overwhelmingly establish the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach on advancing and ratifying a specific amendment is...
View ArticleUnderstanding the US Constitution’s Preamble
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the...
View ArticleCompact for America Solution to Article V Convention Issues According to the...
This the second in a series of articles that examine the Founders’ opinions on how the Article V Convention process should have clear focus. The US Constitution’s Article V provides two methods for...
View ArticleCompact for America Solution to Article V Convention Issues According to the...
The preceding Part I and Part II, containing Exhibits A through G overwhelmingly establish the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach on advancing and ratifying a specific amendment is...
View ArticleThe USA vs. King George. Or as we know it, the Declaration of Independence
While the Declaration of Independence is revered for its eloquence, and inspirational philosophies, in the most straightforward sense it is a legal documents written by a lawyer and approved by...
View ArticleFourth Amendment Victory: Cell Phones Cannot be Searched Without a Warrant
In an age of NSA surveillance, secret courts issuing secret warrants, IRS officials allowing private data to be made public and more, it is important to take notice when the Supreme Court steps up and...
View ArticleTwentieth Amendment: Limiting Lame Duck Mischief
The Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution Explaining the need for the Twentieth Amendment is messy. That is because despite the care taken in drafting, the Constitution left a few matters messy....
View ArticleConstitution’s Twenty-Third Amendment: DC Residents Cast Votes for President
The Constitution provided for a seat of government for the United States. It did not provide voting rights for those living there. The Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, clause 17 empowered Congress...
View ArticleConstitution’s 25th Amendment: Resolving Issues About the Vice-President
When the Constitution was drafted in 1787, the office of vice-president was created as an afterthought, as a solution to potential problems with the Electoral College. The Constitutional Convention...
View ArticleConstitution’s Ninth Amendment: Protecting Unenumerated Rights
On September 17, 1787 the drafting of the American Constitution was complete. The proposed document was not without its detractors and several delegates who participated refused to sign the...
View ArticlePennsylvania Mutiny Chases Congress to Princeton, NJ
The Constitution provided for the creation of a “federal enclave” for the United States capital with these words: “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not...
View ArticleUS Declaration of Independence: Unprecedented Change to the World
On June 7, 1776 Virginia’s Richard Henry Lee stood up in the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia and offered a resolution that would forever change the course of American and world history....
View ArticleThe Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution
“The Tenth Amendment is the foundation of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson Among the questions raised by opponents of the Constitution during the ratification debates was the lack of an express...
View ArticleSixth Amendment Right to Be Informed of Charges
It certainly seems obvious and fair that when the government charges someone with a crime that the person be told what law he has violated and what he did to violate that law. That a government does...
View ArticleCompact for America Solution to Article V Convention Issues According to the...
The goal of the Compact for America (“CFA”) initiative is for the states to propose and ratify the powerful balanced budget amendment that is contained in the Compact for a Balanced Budget into the...
View ArticleTreason: The Only Crime Defined in the US Constitution
The commitment of America’s Founders to the rule of law appears in many elements of the Constitution. The fact that Treason is the only crime defined[1] in the Constitution is among those elements....
View ArticleFederalism, Separation of Powers, and Judicial Independence
Federalist #78 highlights the importance of judicial independence, and the role that it plays in our nation’s system of checks and balances. Alexander Hamilton believed that the court needed to...
View ArticleEugenics- A Historical Perspective
I find it quite ironic, that leftist activist social justice warriors are so adamant when it comes to removing statues or memorials of Confederate Generals, or Confederate flags, while Planned...
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