Today in History: The Philadelphia Convention Scheduled to Begin
By: Dave Benner Today in 1787, delegates from the several states convened in Philadelphia to form a convention with the initial aim of proposing amendments to the Articles of Confederation. ...
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War on Venezuela: An Unconstitutional Disaster in the Making
by Ron Paul Is President Trump about to invade Venezuela? His advisors keep telling us in ever-stronger terms that “all options are on the table” and that US military intervention ...
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Energy in the Legislature
by Philip A. Wallach The Vanishing Congress: Reflections on Politics in Washington is a curious hybrid. It is variously a primer on Congress’s constitutional duties, a scholarly (though note-less) consideration ...
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Texas Committee Holds Hearing on Bill to Review and Reject Unconstitutional Federal Acts
By: Mike Maharrey AUSTIN, Texas (April 19, 2019) – On Wednesday, a Texas House committee held a hearing on a bill that would create a mechanism to review federal laws and ...
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Resisting the System: Interview with Bill Greene on Ending the Fed, and More
By: Mike Maharrey Bill Greene’s biggest claim to fame is spurning Donald Trump and voting for Ron Paul as a member of the electoral college in 2016. But Bill is ...
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Julian Assange: Political Prisoner
by Ron Paul Last week’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an ...
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The Peculiar Institution and the Supreme Court
by Joyce Lee Malcolm Paul Finkelman, in his new book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court, plunges into the private lives of the three most prominent Supreme Court ...
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Does The Ninth Amendment Constitutionally Protect Unenumerated Rights?
by Mike Rappaport Recently, I wrote a couple of posts on whether the Privileges or Immunities Clause protected unenumerated rights. In my view, the Clause does protect such rights, but ...
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Weaponizing People for Political Gain is Nothing New
By: Suzanne Sherman On April 12, 2019, the Los Angeles Times published an article headlined “Trump Threatens to Dump Immigrants into California’s ‘Sanctuary Cities.” The article explains that the plan ...
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The Judiciary Can Restore the Power of Congress
by Peter J. Wallison The recent Law & Liberty post by James Rogers, “How to Rebalance Power between Congress and the Executive Branch,” is focused on the right question: incentives. ...
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