Texas Towns Avoid Some Federal Mandates By Rejecting Federal Money
By: Mike Maharrey The federal government imposes all kinds of mandates and regulations on states and localities through requirements attached to federal funding. More than 60 Texas cities have avoided some ...
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Points to Ponder on the Constitution and Foreign Policy
By: Jacob Hornberger 1. When the Constitution called the federal government into existence, the federal government was not vested with omnipotent powers. Instead, the federal government’s powers were limited to ...
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Insupportable Burdens: Antifederalist Cato No. 6
By: Michael Boldin In his 6th paper, Cato predicted direct taxation on individuals in spite of Federalist assurances the government would be able to survive on trade and import duties. He ...
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The Midnight Ride of Jack Jouett that Saved Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry
By: Joe Wolverton, II Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of — Jack Jouett? Jouett’s mission, like that of his more famous fellow horseman, was to warn ...
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RESTORE ELECTION INTEGRITY IN THE STATES
As Americans saw, the 2020 presidential election was beset with fraud and irregularities. Although it is too late to rectify the 2020 election, voter fraud remains a clear and existential threat ...
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Patrick Henry: Give me Liberty or Give me Death!
By: Michael Boldin On March 23, 1775 – less than a month before Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard round the world,” Patrick Henry offered a set of resolutions before ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part VII: Concentration Camps and the End
By: Rob Natelson This is the last installment in a series on the nadir, or low point, of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the period from 1937 to 1944, when ...
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States Need Budgets – but Enumerated Powers Limit Federal Spending
by Joanna Martin, aka Publius Huldah We will never solve our political and fiscal problems if we continue in our present state of ignorance of the fundamental distinction between the federal Constitution ...
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Our Constitution Is More than Identity Politics
by Teresa R. Manning Most people know that American legal education is liberal. Among law professors, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a ratio of about 50 to one. One consequence of this ...
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On Originalism and Textualism
By: Michael D. Ramsey Three conservative Supreme Court justices declared this month that the Constitution should be read to give state legislatures unlimited control of electoral procedures, and a fourth said ...
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