Washington’s State of the Union
George Washington’s State of the Union Address Holds Lessons for the 21st Century It was a time when government knew its limits and its proper place, and the people did too. Lawrence W. Reed - January 8, 2019 [...]
Wanted-A Congress of the United States
Restore Constitutionalism by Rodney Dodsworth - December 9, 2019 In another age not that long ago there were Congresses of the United States. These Congresses of representatives of the people and the states knew their first purpose was [...]
Tara Ross & the Electoral College
Historian Tara Ross: Electoral College ‘Critically Important’ by Stuart MacPhail January 2020 During December The Daily Wire published a two-part interview with lawyer/historian Tara Ross. In this thoughtful interview Ms. Ross responds to opposition questions. "It’s become conventional wisdom that [...]
SCOTUS-Getting it Right. Sometimes.
Gerrymandering and School Busing – No Justiciable Standard Rodney Dodsworth - December 23, 2019 Few take more delight in hammering Scotus than yours truly. Being supposedly apolitical, it is often anything but a neutral expositor of the law and [...]
The Court’s Inconsistency
Scotus, Abortion, and the Common Defense by Rodney Dodsworth | December 16, 2019 In 1918, Scotus settled the issue of WWI conscription v. the 13th Amendment’s ban on involuntary servitude. Borrowing from Vattel, the court majority wrote in [...]
The Sirens’ Song of the 17th Amendment
Conclusions of Jay S. Bybee – Ulysses at the Mast. Rodney Dodsworth - December 2, 2019 Bybee’s 1997 work was my first scholarly exposure to the 17th Amendment. At the time, I admit to no concern whatsoever over [...]