A lot of people believe the Preamble to the Constitution gives the federal government the power to do just about anything. And a lot of people are wrong. Learn what the preamble is and what it does. Plus the three foundational principles it underscores in the Framers’ understanding of the Constitution.
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Do we have a "national" Constitution? The historical establishment would have you believe it.
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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.
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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. […]