San Diego Has Been Turned Into a Massive Chinese-Style Public Surveillance Network
By: jprivate Can you imagine a city in the United States secretly creating a Chinese-style public surveillance network that can identify everyone? Can you imagine that same city secretly creating ...
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Giving Federalism the Middle Finger
By: Suzanne Sherman The impulse to turn everything into a federal case – even something a personal as an obscene finger gesture – flips the middle finger at the political ...
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Don’t Fall for the National Popular Vote – Enforce the Electoral College!
What is the Constitutional ramifications of State legislatures voting on bills that give all electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote nationally ? These actions will result in ...
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Trashing the 12th Amendment with the National Popular Vote
By Publius Huldah The compact for a National Popular Vote (NPV) is a destructive scheme. Yet it’s been approved by several States; and is pending in others. Since the text ...
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No! The Electoral College Was Not about Slavery!
by Gary L. Gregg II The American people have learned much about the Electoral College since the November election. Much has been learned about the origins, evolution and contemporary functioning ...
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The Incorporation Doctrine and the Bill of Rights
by Michael Maharrey In my last Constitution 101 post, I established that the Bill of Rights was not originally intended to apply to the states. But lawyers and other supporters ...
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Mark Pulliam and the Old Originalism
by Mike Rappaport Mark Pulliam, who is a frequent contributor to our site, has written a new essay at American Greatness, entitled “The Pernicious Notion of ‘Unenumerated Rights,’” that attacks ...
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National Emergency? Which One?
By: Mike Maharrey So, is there a national emergency or no? The president says yes. Congress says no. Here’s the dirty little secret – no matter how things turn out ...
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Is a Presidential “State of Emergency” Constitutional?
By: KrisAnne Hall My inbox is being inundated with the question de jure: “If President Trump declares a ‘State of Emergency’ to build the wall on the border of Mexico, ...
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An Armed Citizenry Is A Free Citizenry, Which Is Why Liberals Want You Disarmed
Kurt Schlichter Kentucky recently became the 16th state to amend its laws to get rid of onerous restrictions on healthy, law-abiding adults bearing arms, conforming its concealed weapons statutes to ...
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