By RANDY E. BARNETT In response to an unprecedented expansion of federal power, citizens have held hundreds of “tea party” rallies around the country, and various states are considering “sovereignty resolutions” invoking the Constitution’s Ninth and Tenth Amendments. For example, Michigan’s proposal urges “the federal government to halt its practice of imposing mandates upon the [...]
Category Archives: Constitutional Government
This Is A Historic, Modern Day, Lesson In The Principle Of Federalism
This is a historic modern day lesson in the principle of Federalism which is one of the protections put into the Constitution by the Framers. This should be watched by all of your family, friends and neighbors. Pass it along.
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The U.S. Constitution Forbids Congress From “Playing Favorites” With Federal Tax Money.
Has the federal government risen above its constitutional right to tax and spend billions of dollars on pork? What argument do we have which puts a seemingly all powerful federal government back in its constitutional place and restores the principle of federalism? James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, established a concept of dual sovereignty, [...]
Tyranny And Abuse By Connecticut Attorney General! This Is Outrageous!
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General is nailed in this interview with Glenn Beck on his abuse of power in going after the AIG bonuses. He admits that there has been no law broken, but, and this is the outrageous part, he says that “they (the AIG executives who got the bonuses) were undeserving of it [...]
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Unconstrained By Constitutional Prohibitions, What Is Left To Limit The Statists?
“The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state,” writes Mark Levin, in his just released book, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto,” he continues, “thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede [...]
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The Divine Foundation of Authority…and Its Political Corruption
“You’re out!” “I’m safe!” “Out!” “It’s my ball, and it’s my bat, and I say that I’m safe.” This is how we settled disputes over plays in our pickup baseball games played without the benefit of a referee or umpire. When a disputed play could not be resolved through reason or through yelling, the one [...]
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New Era of Unlimited Federal Power
Posted by Chris Edwards on Cato@Liberty The House has passed a measure imposing a special punitive tax of 90% on certain employee compensation in response to the AIG scandal. As others have noted, this raises serious constitutional issues. Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 says simply and directly: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post [...]
“Bind Him Down from Mischief by the Chains of the Constitution”
“ In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson For those of us who love individual liberty, free-markets and limited government, we face each day, burdened, with more news of the march toward socialism and the [...]
Also posted in Limited Government Tagged Constitutional Government, limited government, Russell Kirk, Seperation of Powers, Socialism, The American Cause 8 Comments
Threats to Our National Sovereignty
Iain Murray Director of Projects and Analysis and Senior Fellow in Energy, Science and Technology Just when you think things will be o.k., at least in the long run, because of the safeguards of the U. S. Constitution, I read an disturbing speech by Iain Murray, a scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which was [...]
Interpreting the U. S. Constitution…What Did the Framers Intend?
Robert G. Natelson Professor of Law, David Mason Scholar The University of Montana School of Law The U. S. Constitution is the cornerstone of freedom in American which binds our government to the philosophical ideals spelled out in The Declaration of Independence as these self-evident truths, “…that all men are created equal, that they are [...]
