Constitution
The Constitution Doesn’t Create Rights
I heard an interesting conversation on a radio show the other day. The host was talking about NSA spying, and the discussion turned to recent revelations that the agency listened in on phone calls of American “allies” in Europe. The producer chimed in and...
Constitutional War Powers: A Guard Against Tyranny
In 1787, amidst a sweltering Philadelphia summer and equally heated debates over the proposed constitution, James Madison warned his fellow delegates of the danger that giving the president the power to declare war would pose to liberty. On June 29th of that year...
How The Constitution Ended Slavery
While defending the Constitution I am met often with two questions: 1) If the founders were so great and the Constitution such a great document, why did it preserve slavery? 2) Why did the Constitution treat black people as 3/5th a person? The answers to these...
Living, Breathing is the Same as Dead
Many people want strong centralized authority running things. They have an agenda. Things to get done. Needs. Of course, they want to control that centralized authority. That way, they can stop other people from advancing their agenda – agendas they deem less...