Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I
This two-part essay is a primer on the longest amendment ever adopted—the 14th.
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Abolish the CDC and NIH
(Above: The CDC campus in Atlanta; Reuters) This essay was first printed in The Epoch Times on October 31, 2021;
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Congress’s new unconstitutional ‘tax mandate’ and its runaway spending power
When you assign fault for our unsustainable national debt, don’t limit the blame to spendthrift politicians. Blame also the Supreme Court justices who enabled them.
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Our Quadrennial National Convention: The Electoral College
The baseless argument that a “national convention can do anything” never has had any force with the national convention known as the Electoral College.
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The case for Colorado’s Amendment 78
A core tenet of Anglo-American government: Public revenues and expenditures must be under the control of the legislature.
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Immigration: How Biden Is violating the Constitution
The current situation at the southern border . . . is an “invasion” as the Constitution uses the term. Biden’s failure to stop it is a violation of the Guarantee Clause.
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Understanding the Constitution: the English foundation
When educators underplay the English background in service to the “diversity” agenda, they leave their students clueless as to the meaning and significance of the Constitution, and susceptible to “woke” propaganda.
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Understanding the Constitution: Constitutional amendments work
The lamp of experience sheds light unmistakably bright and clear: Constitutional amendments work.
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Chief Justice John Marshall: The feds have no power over your health care!
Our greatest chief justice was clear: Health regulations are for the states alone.
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Tenant eviction moratoria are more than unconstitutional; they’re insurrectionary
These orders, federal and state, and not merely unconstitutional. They are fundamentally anti-constitutional. They are at war with a fundamental reason the Constitution was adopted.
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Understanding the Constitution: the style of the preamble
Gouverneur Morris had been educated in Greek and Latin poetry, but in composing the preamble he wisely adopted meter appropriate to English. He heightened the effect with alliteration and near rhymes.
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Defending the Constitution: Secrets behind those ‘obscure’ provisions
Here are questions and answers addressing five of the Constitution’s less famous provisions.
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