The Constitution, Congress and Government Debt
What would you do if you were driving a vehicle and came upon a traffic light that had both red and green lights on? Most rational folks would stop. After all, the red means “stop and stay stopped until the red light goes off,” and the green means...
The ideas that formed the Constitution: Machiavelli
A span of over a thousand years separates our last writer, the Roman historian Tacitus (who died about 120 C.E.), from Niccolò Machiavelli. You might wonder: Was there no one during that time period worth covering? And, why Machiavelli? Wasn’t he an exponent of the...
James Madison’s Last Day in Office: Veto of the “Bonus Bill”
As his last official act as President, James Madison vetoed a bill that would provide federal funding for building roads and canals throughout the United States. Today in history – on March 3, 1817 – President James Madison vetoed the Bonus Bill of 1817 –...