Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

by | Mar 12, 2025 | Founding Principles

The world is filled with self-evident truths — truisms — that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. A cup of boiling hot coffee sitting on a table in a room, the temperature...
Gitmo Continues to Haunt

Gitmo Continues to Haunt

by | Nov 20, 2024 | Current Events

Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first time in modern history. The short answer is: Even in the military, the Secretary of Defense cannot change the rules and procedures for...
War and the Constitution

War and the Constitution

by | Oct 25, 2024 | Current Events, War Powers

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in...
The Right to be Left Alone

The Right to be Left Alone

by | Aug 24, 2024 | 4th Amendment

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t create the right; it limits government interference with it. Shortly before he announced his withdrawal from the presidential...
The Tyranny of the Majority

The Tyranny of the Majority

by | May 25, 2024 | Federal Power

Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by a little-known colonial-era preacher, addresses the age-old question of...