An Interview with Larry P. Arnn Published in Imprimis: December 2011 – A Publication of Hillsdale College This is the final installment of an interview of Dr. Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, which is adapted from an interview by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution for his show “Uncommon Knowledge.” The interview took [...]
Category Archives: Constitutional Government
The Unity and Beauty of the Declaration and the Constitution, Part 2
An Interview with Larry P. Arnn Published in Imprimis: December 2011 – A Publication of Hillsdale College This is a continuation of an interview of Dr. Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, which is adapted from an interview by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution for his show “Uncommon Knowledge.” The interview took place [...]
The Unity and Beauty of the Declaration and the Constitution, Part 1
An Interview with Larry P. Arnn Published in Imprimis: December 2011 – A Publication of Hillsdale College The following is adapted from an interview by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution for his show “Uncommon Knowledge.” The interview took place on October 3, 2011, at Hillsdale College, and it can be viewed in full at [...]
Obama Financial Czar Appointment Is Unconstitutional, Liberal Law Professor Says
Posted at OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader 23 September 2010 @ 11:24 am Obama has appointed controversial Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to informally run the powerful, newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that will regulate the banking industry and consumer lending. To avoid having the Senate vote on her nomination (as the Constitution’s Appointments Clause [...]
The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) discusses how anti-money laundering laws, which require banks to snoop on their customers, are costly and ineffective. Entitled “Making Banks Spy on Their Customers is Not Effective Crime Fighting: The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws,” the mini-documentary explains that these laws [...]
Also posted in Limited Government, Privacy Tagged Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Cato Institute, Center for Freedom and Prosperity, Dan Mitchell 2 Comments
Richard Epstein: The Reid Bill Is Blatantly Unconstitutional
By Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online on December 23, 2009 – better late than never! At PointOfLaw.com, the distinguished University of Chicago constitutional scholar Richard Epstein provides a painstaking, withering analysis of the healthcare legislation wending its way through the Senate. He concludes that it is clearly unconstitutional. The essay is lengthy and, in [...]
Also posted in Health Care, Limited Government, Socialized Medicine Tagged Andy McCarthy, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Healthcare Insurance, Obamacare, Richard Epstien, Supreme Court Leave a comment
It Wasn’t A ‘Coup’
It is important to understand the constitutionality of what happened in Honduras with the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, their Constitutional process, how the law was upheld, and how the Obama administration is advocating a policy in direct conflict with the ‘rule-of-law.’ Juan Carlos Hidalgo, the project coordinator for Latin American, at the Cato Institute, [...]
Interpreting the U. S. Constitution…What Did the Framers Intend?
With the battle for President Obama’s first nomination of a Supreme Court Justice beginning it seems appropriate to re-post this very important reminder of what the Framers of the U.S. Constitution intended for interpreting the U. S. Constitution. If you really want to understand the debate that will play out over the next number of [...]
