Young Turks and Article V
The Young Turks Come to Washington State on a Quest to Overturn Citizens United by Rich Smith • Feb 22, 2019 Break out your powdered wigs, baby! It's time to talk about the viability of constitutional conventions! On Friday afternoon, the [...]
Did the Founders Blunder, Part I
1787 Constitutional Convention: Illegal or a Runaway? A broadly stated false authority by the John Birch Society, Eagle Forum, and others is that an Article V convention will surely result in a runaway? Where’s the evidence? Which conventions [...]
America’s Rights
Rights and Non-Rights: A Simple Way to Distinguish the Two Despite the centrality of rights in American history, it’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, [...]
America’s Real Enemy
The Progressive Movement Rejected The Founders’ Model For Lawmaking By Madeline Osburn FEBRUARY 1, 2019 When the founders of our country designed the legislative branch, they envisioned lawmakers relying on natural law and reason. They gave the legislature the power [...]
Unenforceable Laws Against Pleasure
WSJ January 26, 2019 HISTORICALLY SPEAKING The 100th anniversary of Prohibition is a reminder of how hard it is to regulate consumption and display By Amanda Foreman | 552 words This month we mark the centennial of the [...]
Example of Democracy’s Failure
from: The Covington Debacle Shows the Founders Were Right to Distrust Democracy [the following excerpt addresses the fallout over recent ‘democratic’ events including the Covington Catholic High School MAGA hats DC incident and the Justice Kavanaugh Senate hearings. [...]