A National Constitution?
Do we have a "national" Constitution? The historical establishment would have you believe it.
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Do we have a "national" Constitution? The historical establishment would have you believe it.
The post A National Constitution? first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
The Constitution is not in force in any meaningful way, but when did things get like this? Some people think 1861, or 1913, or 1933 - but the answer may surprise you.
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Just because I point out that a government has a particular power doesn't necessarily mean I think it should use that particular power.
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Only Congress has the power to “declare war.” But how it’s used today has almost no resemblance to the original, legal meaning in the Constitution.
The post The Power to Declare War: An Introduction first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
One of the more ludicrous claims about the Constitution is that fifty-five old white rich men just sort of “made it up.” There are two versions of this claim: One that it was put together out of whole cloth to serve their interests, and the other that it was revealed in a flash of divine […]
On this episode of Good Morning Liberty, host Michael Boldin (follow) discusses the latest update from President Trump on a new federal bump stock ban that he’s personally pushing through – without opposition from the NRA. He also covers a strategy response that states and local communities should take to protect the right to keep […]
Today in 1751, James Iredell was born. A brilliant figure of the founding era, he was considered a legal prodigy at an extremely young age. Just prior to the American War for Independence, he penned a pamphlet, To the Inhabitants of Great Britain, which espoused his constitutional arguments against the British concept of Parliamentary sovereignty. […]
When the first Congress met in Philadelphia in March of 1789, there were still only 11 states in the Union. North Carolina had held a convention, but it had not voted to ratify. And little Rhode Island had refused to even hold a convention.
Last week, we got a healthy dose of political theater. I honestly didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the Kavanaugh hearings – other than what I scrolled past in my Facebook feed. On the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, I predicted how all of this will play out. Here’s what I said: “Senators will grandstand. […]
In this episode of the Truth Quest Podcast, I hope to influence the way you look at the federal government going forward