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Congress Checks the President, But Only Kinda:

By: Michael Boldin In two votes this week, on the war in Yemen and on Emergency Powers – Congress appears to be checking the power of the executive branch. But ...

Decentralization and the Common Good: A Conversation with Andy Smarick

March 15, 2019 Bureaucracy / Constitution / Federalism 0

by Andy Smarick Andy Smarick joins us to discuss how Friedrich Hayek’s scholarship on the evolved nature of liberty and the principle of subsidiarity can undergird political decentralization and produce ...

Competing Conceptions of Union and Ordered Liberty in The Webster-Hayne Debate

March 15, 2019 Constitution / Enumerated Powers / Federalism / Founders / Nullification / State Sovereignty 0

by Aaron N. Coleman Herman Belz’s The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union is the first document collection included in Liberty Fund’s series of Liberty Classics. This is ...

McCulloch: A “Rule of Construction” Too “Broad and Pliant”

March 15, 2019 Constitution / Enumerated Powers / Founders / Original Intent / SCOTUS 0

by Kevin Gutzman On October 22, 1819, Chief Judge Spencer Roane of the Virginia Court of Appeals (now the Virginia Supreme Court) dashed off a quick cover letter to former ...

Leftists Say Judge’s Christian Beliefs Disqualify Him From Office

March 14, 2019 Amendments / Constitution / Federal Courts 0

by Todd Starnes "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of ...

Finally Exposed: BiPartisan Cover Up For Clinton

March 14, 2019 Bureaucracy / Constitution / Deep State / Enumerated Powers 0

by KrisAnne Hall Finally, vindication for what I have been saying for almost a year, but worse is the fact that we have proof of Bipartisan cover up for Hillary ...

Kentucky Governor Signs “Constitutional Carry” Bill into Law

March 14, 2019 Enumerated Powers / Founders / History / Natural Law / Nullification / Power of the People 0

By: Mike Maharrey FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 12, 2019) – Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has signed a bill into law making it legal for state residents to carry firearms concealed without a ...

War Spending Is Bankrupting America

March 14, 2019 Bureaucracy / Deep State / Deficit / Foreign Policy / Spending 0

By: John Whitehead Our nation is being preyed upon by a military industrial complex that is propped up by war profiteers, corrupt politicians and foreign governments. America has so much ...

Empowering the State Will Not Advance Social Conservatism

March 13, 2019 Bureaucracy / Constitution / Nullification / State Sovereignty 0

by John O. McGinnis Ross Douthat has called attention to a growing number of conservatives, particularly religious conservatives, who are calling for more state power to advance conservative ends. They see ...

Jefferson on Debt and Madison on Spending

March 12, 2019 Constitution / Debt / Enumerated Powers / Original Intent / Spending 0

Michael Boldin Two lessons for today from the 3rd and 4th Presidents. How Jefferson tackled the national debt, and how Madison dealt with Congress passing a bill for infrastructure spending.