Abolish the Department of Education, Says Former Education Secretary DeVos
by Michael Tennant Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that the Department of Education should be shuttered because it has “no good reason … to exist” and is used to ...
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Supreme Court Opinion in Sackett v. EPA Restores Limits on the Power of the Bureaucracy
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday dealing a blow to the Biden administration’s attempts to confiscate millions of acres of land by classifying them as “protected ...
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Benjamin Franklin Speech Exposes the Inherent Danger of Power and Money
By: Mike Maharrey On June 2, 1787, Benjamin Franklin delivered a speech at the Philadelphia Convention opposing a provision in the proposed Constitution to pay the president a salary. The speech ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations
By: Rob Natelson Within the Constitution’s text are meanings most purported constitutional experts never see. They fail to see those meanings because they don’t take the trouble to learn enough about ...
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Resolution Affirming State Nullification Introduced in Louisiana
by Peter Rykowski A resolution affirming “the sovereign right of Louisiana to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government” has been introduced in the Louisiana state Legislature. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. ...
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Who’s Supreme? The Supremacy Clause Smackdown
By: Brion McClanahan When Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter signed HO391 into law on 17 March 2010, the “national” news media circled the wagons and began another assault on State sovereignty. ...
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Should We Abandon the Original Constitution?
By: Brion McClanahan Should we adhere to the original Constitution of 1789 or the Constitution of 1868? You might be asking, “What is the difference?” Last year, I talked about the ...
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Supreme Court Considers Domestic Spying Too Secret to Be Challenged
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to review a lower court’s dismissal of the Wikimedia Foundation’s lawsuit against a National Security Agency (NSA) ...
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Convention of States People Making Up History Again
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The con-con people are at it again: making up history to suit their purpose, that purpose being to call a second Constitutional Convention. Here’s what was ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Tacitus
By: Rob Natelson The authors discussed in this series impacted the Constitution both directly and indirectly. Citations to the authors by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790 are evidence of ...
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