On this day, November 16, 217 years ago, Governor James Garrard of Kentucky signed into law the first of two landmark pieces of legislation known to history as the Kentucky Resolutions.
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The Founders learned very early in life to venerate the illuminating stories of ancient Greece and Rome. They learned these stories, not from secondary sources, but from the classics themselves.
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It has been 227 years since August 23, 1787, but the debates that occupied the 50 or so delegates present that day at the so-called Federal Convention in Philadelphia can still be heard in Congress today.
On that hot summer day, representatives confronted the delicate and divisive issue of state sovereignty.
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Today, as the federal government acts every day with “injustice and the minority on [its] side,” it is vain for states to sell their birthright of personal and political liberty for a mess of bipartisan pottage.
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Progressive columnist Robert Parry has taken a new view on the Constitution, that the Founders themselves, and not necessity, authorized the federal power we have today. Joe Wolverton responds.
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Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that “all bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other bills.”
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As he was leaving office, President George Washington’s Farewell Address showed his concern about the increasingly partisan and militaristic path the Republic was heading down.
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Although nearly every law, regulation, or order issued by the federal government is almost indecipherable because of the amount of vague language, when it says it is collecting all information, it really means all information.
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President Obama, apparently, has a fondness for transformers: He takes one useful thing and repurposes it into something equally useful, although perhaps not equally constitutional.
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Our own experiment with self-government and federalism continues and ironically, the government established by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 too often envelops itself in a similar shroud of secrecy, worn to mask its efforts to dismantle the very freedoms protected by the product of that historic convention.
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DOJ Reports: FISA Court Approved Every Federal Surveillance Request
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William J. Watkins explains why the common belief that the Supreme Court has the last say about the constitutionality of our laws is wrong–and why people have the last say.
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The Constitution. Every issue, every time. No exceptions, no excuses.
