Decentralization: For Humanity’s Sake

The Roman historian Titus Livius once called Rome รขโ‚ฌล“the greatest nation in the world.รขโ‚ฌย He wrote those words in a time of moral and political decline, and Livy was hoping by outlining the greatness of the once proud republic, the Roman people would arrest the...

The United States Is Not a Nation!

I have often required my students on the first day or two of class to use the Oxford English Dictionary and define the following words: nation and state. Most do not follow my directions and submit a modern Websterรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs or online distortion of the word, and those who...

Choosing Federalism, Choosing Freedom

by Timothy Baldwin After the release of my last column “Freedom’s Destruction by Constitutional De-Construction,” I received so many responses to my statement, “The people of the states [must] once again reject this national form of government...