A Response to a “Living Constitutionalist”
Most law professors focus on Supreme Court cases. They have limited familiarity with the Founding Era record.
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“Good Enough” Politicians Aren’t Good Enough
When we seek to support candidates who are merely “good enough” on any given issue, we continue to surrender our liberties and our Revolutionary legacy.
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A Jeffersonian American Patriot is a State Patriot
“The true barriers of our liberty in this country,” Jefferson instructed, “are our State governments”
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“General Welfare” and “Common Defense” Explained by James Madison
The words “provide for the common defense and general welfare” rank among the most abused phrases in the Constitution.
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Fake News, 18th Century Style
If you have to fabricate a document to make your point, then your point is built on a house of cards.
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John Locke’s Appeal to Heaven: Its Continuing Relevance
In his Second Treatise of Civil Government, eminent political philosopher John Locke argued that when all other political and individual methods of resisting tyranny are exhausted, only an “appeal to heaven” remains.
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Nine Reasons the “Living, Breathing” Constitution View Is a Lie
American colonists fought the Revolution to extricate themselves from a political system based on a “living breathing” constitution.
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The Relationship Between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Their connection is not difficult to understand.
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The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement
Every so often, a book comes out that shatters orthodox perspectives concerning the American founding.
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Don’t Let the Establishment Fool You
We should not conflate “naturalization” with “immigration.”
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Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary
In Thomas Jefferson – Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America, historian Kevin Gutzman offers a fresh look at the famous statesman, described as “a revolutionary who effected radical change in a growing country.” Although often described as an American political enigma whose image is claimed by almost everyone, Gutzman’s new exposition does much to…
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James Madison on the Constitution and War Powers
“war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”
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