Arkansas Senate Passes Bill to Create Process to Review and Reject Presidential Executive Orders
By: Mike Maharrey LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 17, 2021) – Yesterday, the Arkansas Senate passed a bill that would create a mechanism to review presidential executive orders and end state cooperation ...
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New Evidence: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 Were All About Nullification
By: Mike Maharrey Nullification skeptics will often argue that the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 weren’t actually proposing nullification. They base their argument on the fact that John Breckinridge removed specific references ...
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If Our Republic’s Constitution Still Matters…
It Is Time for a Constitutional Confederation of States by Mark Alexander — The Patriot Post “The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every ...
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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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You Should Barely Know the Federal Government Exists
By: Mike Maharrey Thomas Jefferson called the Tenth Amendment “The foundation of the Constitution.” “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the ...
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The Nature of the Federal Government
By: Mike Maharrey We have flipped the American constitutional system on its head. It operates exactly the opposite of how the supporters of the Constitution said it would. So, what type ...
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Does the Creature Dictate to the Creator?
By Publius Huldah WHERE did the federal government come from? It was CREATED by the Constitution. WHO ratified the Constitution? WE THE PEOPLE, acting through special ratifying conventions called in ...
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Constitutionally, Religious Gatherings Must Enjoy the Same Rights As Protest Gatherings
By Walter Olson Ten days can be a long time in constitutional law. On May 29 a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the four more liberal ...
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The American Revolution Was a Constitutional Crisis
By: Mike Maharrey At its core, the American Revolution was a constitutional crisis. The British system of government during the colonial era was a constitutional system, but not in the ...
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“Necessary” Is Not a Constitutional Argument
By: Mike Maharrey I hear a lot of bad constitutional arguments justifying this or that federal action. One common justification for expanding federal power is: “This thing is necessary! It ...
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