The Real Enforcement Mechanism for the Constitution
Almost everything people learn about how the Constitution is supposed to be enforced is wrong. As a result, we live under the largest government in history, and it’s only going to keep getting worse without a huge change of course. CONSTITUTIONS DON’T ENFORCE...
No Emergency Powers in the Constitution
It has become an article of faith that under our system of government, federal officials can declare an emergency, which then purportedly authorizes federal officials to exercise emergency powers. However, it just ain’t so. There is nothing in the Constitution that...
Mercy Otis Warren: Constitution Would “Terminate in the Most Uncontrolled Despotism”
Mercy Otis Warren came down firmly opposed to ratification of the Constitution, and her anonymously written pamphlet titled “Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions” was highly influential during the ratification debates....