Today in History: The Boston Tea Party
On December 16th in 1773, a group of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded three British ships and dumped several tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The event became known ...
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Babies Don’t Provide Anchors!
By Publius Huldah Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says, in part: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ...
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Suspending The Constitution: In America Today, The Government Does Whatever It Wants
We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document. The reality we must come to terms with, however, is that ...
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Socialism and the Law of the Jungle
When you step onto the soil of backcountry Alaska, you lose your place at the top of the food chain. And you’d better be aware of that because the grizzly ...
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Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps
During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The ...
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In The Case of “Birthright Citizenship”
Concerning the 14th Amendment, like the rest of the Constitution, the so-called "Progressives" don't mind the rest of us upholding the Constitution, so long as they are the only one who gets ...
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THE NEED FOR NATURAL LAW
An interesting critique of Positive Law and defense of Natural Law. <Read Here>
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Jefferson, Locke, and the Declaration of Independence
An interesting article about Natural Law and the original meaning of the critical words in our Declaration <Click Here>
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Gordon Wood’s Reflections on the Constitution and Slavery
At Northwestern University Law School’s Lincoln Lecture, endowed by my colleague Steve Calabresi, we had the great good fortune to hear a talk by Gordon Wood, the leading historian of ...
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Amanda Tyler and the Original Meaning of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause
While the original Constitution certainly had some defects — especially that it allowed slavery — it was in many ways an amazingly protective document. It was a classical liberal document ...
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