Dueling Originalists (and Justice Thomas on Stare Decisis) in Gamble v. United States
By: Michael D. Ramsey The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Gamble v. United States confirms the validity of the “dual sovereigns” doctrine: that successive prosecutions in state and federal court for the ...
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How do we protect our rights?
by James D. Best We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among ...
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Why the Founders Wanted You to Own Military-Style Weapons
By: TJ Martinell Two hundred and twenty-seven years ago this month, the U.S. Congress passed the Militia Acts of 1792. This pair of bills authorized the president to lead the ...
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Fix Education by Radical Decentralization
By: Justin Spears Almost everybody admits that the American school system underperforms. “Reform” is almost universally prescribed as the solution. But in other walks of life, bad ideas are not ...
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Constitution 101: The Electoral College
By: Mike Maharrey When you head to the polls and vote for the president, you don’t actually vote for the president. You vote for a slate of electors who select ...
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A Christmas Gift from James Madison: The Virginia Resolutions of 1798
Mike Maharrey Resolutions drafted by James Madison and passed by Virginia on Dec 21. and 24, 1798, answer a timeless question: What do we do when the federal government oversteps ...
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Support BBFL While Shopping on Amazon !
Did you know your purchases can make a difference? AmazonSmile donates to Building Blocks for Liberty when you do your holiday shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/47-1379877. You can do your holiday shopping ...
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Our low-IQ elites strike again: our acting Atty Gen supports nullification!
By: Thomas Woods Evidently the acting Attorney General believes, correctly, that the states have the power to nullify unconstitutional federal laws. So the usual suspects went berserk, and trotted out ...
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THE U.S. SUPREME COURT and NATURAL LAW
Enjoyed this article by Paul Moreno of Hillsdale College. Near the end, he catalogs the major cases where the SCOTUS started conflating Positive Law with Natural Law, which in effect abolishes Natural ...
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