Bill of Rights

Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights

by Mike Maharrey | Jun 12, 2022 | American Revolution, Bill of Rights, Founding Principles, History

On June 12, 1776, the Fifth Virginia Convention passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights. It is arguably the most important founding document that most people have never heard of. The Virginia Declaration of Rights laid the groundwork for both the Declaration of...

Bloody Gina and Her Team of Torturers

by Judge Andrew Napolitano | Jun 10, 2022 | 8th Amendment, Current Events

Last week, at a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi who is charged with being the mastermind of an attack on the USS Cole in 2000 at which 17 American sailors were killed, the psychologist in charge of...

Lessons from the Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774

by TJ Martinell | Jun 2, 2022 | 3rd Amendment, American Revolution

Most people are familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but not a lot of people know about the aftermath, and how that experience helped shape the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Although British attempts to confiscate arms and munitions directly triggered the...

Patrick Henry Demands a Bill of Rights

by TJ Martinell | May 27, 2022 | Bill of Rights, Constitution, Patrick Henry, Ratification Debates

On June 7, 1788, Patrick Henry delivered one of many long speeches at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, warning about giving up too much power, and demanding the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the proposed U.S. Constitution before its adoption. The convention ran...

The Bill of Temporary Privileges

by Judge Andrew Napolitano | May 7, 2022 | 4th Amendment, Current Events, Surveillance

Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the American intelligence community masquerading as the head of it, revealed that in 2021, the FBI engaged in 3.4 million warrantless electronic searches of Americans. This...

Separation of Powers: A “Dogmatic Maxim” in the Constitution

by Michael Boldin | May 4, 2022 | Bill of Rights, Constitution, Founding Principles, James Madison

James Madison considered the separation of powers so important he not only called it a “dogmatic maxim,” he expressly included it as part of his proposed amendments for the Bill of Rights. Representing the twin-pillars making up the foundation of the Constitution,...

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“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

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