How States Could Constitutionally Assume Abandoned Responsibilities of the National Government
The doctrine of protective resumption offers a way to safeguard the rights of citizenship when the issue is not how powers are being exercised but how they are not. ...
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Thomas Jefferson’s Blueprint for Dealing With the National Debt
The way Thomas Jefferson handled the national debt should serve as a blueprint today. But instead, modern presidents look more like college students on a spending spree with their first ...
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The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine Isn’t About Constitutionality
State and local governments can legally refuse to cooperate with the enforcement of federal laws and the implementation of federal programs. And this is key – whether those laws or programs ...
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Ten Things I Learned From the Pandemic
I learned the following ten lessons about our society from the pandemic. Some of these things I already knew in an abstract way from historical study and reflection on experience, ...
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Law to End State Cooperation with the Enforcement of Presidential Executive Orders
BISMARCK, N.D. (Aug. 1, 2021) – Today a North Dakota law that creates a process to end state cooperation with the enforcement of presidential executive orders went into effect. The ...
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How the Grassroots Are Resisting CRT
The popular revolt against Critical Race Theory has shocked the woke establishment. We can see in its schizophrenic and unsteady reaction just how spooked it is. Consider, for example, how ...
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True Civil Libertarians Must Oppose the IRS
Progressives who work to end individual rights violations committed by the NSA, FBI, DEA, CIA, and other federal agencies usually overlook, or even support, the routine violations of Americans’ rights ...
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Authoritarians Drunk on Power
It is time to recalibrate the government. For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the ...
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Neither Necessary nor Proper
It was sixteen years ago last month that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Gonzales v. Raich (2005), ruled that the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801) did not exceed ...
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