The Militia vs. The Standing Army: Does the Distinction Matter?
By: TJ Martinell Within the debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment, a lot of attention gets paid to the phrase “well-regulated militia.” Most of the time, the focus is ...
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The First Amendment’s Wall of Separation
By: Mike Maharrey In an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their ...
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Refuting the “Second Amendment Protected Slavery” Argument Part II: The Virginia Ratifying Convention
By: TJ Martinell Note: This is the second in a three-part series examining a pro-slavery interpretation of the Second Amendment that persists to this day. You can read part 1 HERE. The ...
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Refuting the Claim that the Second Amendment was Intended to Protect Slavery
By: TJ Martinell Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining a false “pro-slavery” interpretation of the Second Amendment that persists to this day. In efforts to undermine the ...
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Federal Farmer: A Confederated Republic or Consolidation?
By: TJ Martinell During the Constitution’s ratification process, there was little to no debate about the type of government desired. Whether antifederalist or federalist, both sides fundamentally advocated for a federal ...
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The First Amendment’s Wall of Separation
By: Mike Maharrey In an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their ...
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Jury Nullification: The Constitutional Judgment of Juries
By: TJ Martinell The right of jury nullification is considered by many to be the “last bastion” of liberty and a final check against government oppression. But does this apply to ...
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State of the Nullification Movement Report
Get it here (right-click to download) – or scroll down for the full report via Scribd .pdf format (right-click to download and save) How to upload to your Kindle device or app click ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Cicero
By: Rob Natelson The first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth essays in this series addressed the influence on the Constitution of four leading Greek thinkers. There is one more Greek on our list, the biographer Plutarch. He lived ...
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The Upside-Down Constitution and Its Critics
by Michael S. Greve In revisiting The Upside-Down Constitution ten years after I put that baby to bed, I am violating time-honored principles of sensible authorial conduct. One, as a great Dane ...
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