How Congress Has Assaulted Our Freedoms in the Patriot Act
Judge Andrew Napolitano: “A self-written search warrant, even one called a national security letter, is the ultimate constitutional farce.”
Obama Blusters, Brewer Begs. When will Someone Grow a Spine?
Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?
The Importance of Being “Natural Born”
the real discussion over the President’s birth certificate should not be the sanity of the questioners, but the reasons the President didn’t produce his birth certificate long ago
Fedzilla Hungry Again: State Courts Threatened
Will Republicans take another turn at the endless trough of centralization, or can they be stopped?
General Misunderstandings
an Ivy League education doesn’t necessarily guarantee a student will actually graduate knowing anything.
Getting Confused by Nicknames, Old and New
The task of patriots today is to do everything in their power to defeat the advocates of consolidated government
Putting the “Represent” in House of Representatives
How can 435 people justly rule over 300 million? Answer: They can’t.
Constitutional Absurdity
“The federal system does not currently operate under political maxims; it operates upon political whim.”
SOTU: What About the Constitution?
How can any American really evaluate the state of the Union without understanding the foundation upon which that Union rests – the Constitution?
True Fidelity to the Constitution
Ron Paul asks – will a renewed interest in the constitution lead to a renewed adherence to it for every issue?
All Legislative Powers Herein Granted
is the Congress the only institution of the federal government currently exercising legislative powers as required by the Constitution?
The Time to Rein in Spending is Now!
The debate in Congress over the extension of the Bush tax cuts has obscured the issue of government spending. After all, it is because members of Congress love to spend money that isn’t theirs that we “need” an income tax to begin with.
A Re-Write of the Bill of Rights through the Preamble
With the 219th anniversary of the adoption of the document known as Bill of Rights only hours away, every American who has graduated from high school should be able to explain the original intent of the Amendments in ten minutes or less.
The Congressional Power over Immigration: A Detective Story
Did the Founders’ Constitution give Congress the power to restrict immigration? Or was this a subject reserved to the states?
Is the Repeal Amendment What We Need?
“It is important to strengthen the State governments, and as this cannot be done by change in the Federal Constitution, it must be done by States themselves” -Thomas Jefferson
The TSA, Interposition and the Spirit of 1809
“Our Constitution encourages local governments to stand up when the federal government goes too far..These naked X-ray machines..constitute an unreasonable search,” which violates the Fourth Amendment.
View of the Constitution of the United States
St. George Tucker’s View of the Constitution of the United States was the first extended, systematic commentary on the Constitution after it had been ratified by the people of the several states and amended by the Bill of Rights.
Reclaiming Commerce
For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,†Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything
The Original Constitution: Roadmap to Restoration
“Whether ‘We the People’ want our real Constitution back is ultimately for us to decide.†There is no disputing that.
“Unconstitutional Law” is an Oxymoron
The Tenth Amendment prohibits the federal government from interfering with a state’s decision to either allow or prohibit the cultivation, distribution or use of marijuana within its own boundaries (case law involving the Commerce Clause notwithstanding).
The Founders Wanted Big Government? I Object.
Were the Framers “nationalists†who all along, despite their own words to the contrary, secretly intended to establish in the original Constitution a federal leviathan?
The Statist and the Straw Man: Answering Attacks on Tenthers
The sovereignty movement is feared and ridiculed for its independence by weak minded men who consider themselves intelligent, but are really nothing more than altar boys for the State.
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