Five Constitutional Truths They Don’t Want You to Know
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson nailed it. And here’s the deal – mass, widespread ignorance about our Constitution is no accident. It’s by design. Why? Because...
The ideas that formed the Constitution: Jean-Louis DeLolme and “We the People…”
Writers on the Constitution seldom mention the name of Jean-Louis DeLolme. This is unfortunate, because DeLolme’s book on the English political system significantly influenced those who participated in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790. The Constitution’s...
Power From the People
We’ve all heard or seen the slogan, “Power to the People,” but it gets things almost completely backwards. The word “TO” is the wrong word, by far. Under the system and principles of the founders and old revolutionaries, all power comes FROM the people. They don’t...