Tag: Constituion

Repeal the 17th Amendment: The Anti-Federalist Warnings We Must Not Ignore

December 16, 2024

by Michael Boldin

Repealing the 17th Amendment has become a rallying cry for those seeking to restore federalism. But the Anti-Federalists warned during the ratification debates that structural flaws in the Senate run much deeper than merely the method of election. Corruption, careerism, and usurpations of power won’t disappear with repeal alone – not even close. The Anti-Federalists … Read more

Ignorance vs. Freedom: Reclaim the Constitution and Liberty

December 2, 2024

by Michael Boldin

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.” That’s why the TAC focuses on educating people about the original meaning of the Constitution, the foundational principles of liberty, and the American Revolution. Nothing fuels our mission more than the faith and financial support of … Read more

Without His Concurring Aid, We Shall Succeed in This Political Building No Better Than the Builders of Babel

July 7, 2024

by Op-Ed

We just celebrated the 248th celebration of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence! Happy Birthday, America! I am sure you know that the Declaration of Independence was meant to be a list of grievances leveled against Great Britain for her being “deaf to the Voice of Justice.

Has SCOTUS finally Gone Too Far?

June 21, 2024

by Ian Underwood

Apparently, Louisiana has a new law that requires a copy of the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in each public school classroom in the state.

The Security of a Free State

December 22, 2023

by Ian Underwood

This is from a conversation in the comments below one of Steve’s recent posts. It seems relevant to a lot of what’s happening just now, so I thought I’d post it separately.

ignorant - note original Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash

The Left’s “Constitutional Scholarship” Distilled Down to a Handful of Words …

June 24, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

My commute is short but every now and again I try to listen to a few minutes of Howie Carr. On rare occasions, I hear something other than ads, and yesterday, Howie read a text that distilled the Left’s Constitutional scholarship down to a handful of words.

New Poll: Should President Trump Tell the Courts to Go to Hell on DACA?

June 26, 2020

by Steve MacDonald

Playing court jester, or put another way making gestures to the courts, is a common practice that some believe needs to end. There is no constitutional right to Judicial Supremacy. In fact, the other branches are expected to use the constitution to point out to the Court, where it has no business meddling.

Where Does Hannah Rivers Actually “Live?” (Hint: It doesn’t matter)

September 26, 2018September 26, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Domicile, Domicile, where for art thou Domicile? Or perhaps, ” A transient Domicile by any other name would be as….whatever.” If you are an out of state college student where you live doesn’t matter, so where you vote does not matter either, and when I say doesn’t matter, I mean it doesn’t matter where in New Hampshire.

Case in point. The ACLU and League of Women Voters petition, the one that Judge John Lewis more or less just signed off on in the blink of an eye, lists the first petitioner as Hannah Rivers. On the petition she lists her ‘residence’ as Durham New Hampshire. But she hails from Raymond Nebraska, has a drivers license issued by the state of Nebraska and, presumably, wants to vote in Durham in November.

Question: So can out of state students just pick and choose which towns or cities they can vote in, based–presumably–on wherever the Democrat party or their liberal professors, need a ballot box stuffed?

[Update: Edited to affect the relevance of my source information and my source.]

A Real Separation Of Powers

September 26, 2018November 24, 2010

by Steve MacDonald

Separation of powers is something of a throw-away phrase for the Socialist-Democrat-Progressives. They hand it out like a comfort object to the public, a sort of well-worn teddy bear for the masses. It is meant to remind you that no matter what they do (or did) that bear will be there to help you feel better.

So what if it is a highly regulated bear, made by dues paying union workers, stuffed with warning labels, wearing a little red hat with a hammer and sickle on it, and maybe even an Obama T-shirt for good measure.

Separation of powers is also this idea where the three branches are divided to ensure that the tyrannical might of the federal government is divided to protect the rights of the people. This used to work, right up until someone wrote the seventeenth amendment, and then politicized the national court system. At that point we no longer had separation of powers just the separation of parties, except where the two parties agree; in which case we are looking at an Oligarchy by direct democracy, which is one of the shortest paths by which little Red Totalitarian-Riding hood arrives at Comrade Grandma’s house.

Why do you think both parties appear to be moving to opposite extreme’s? Why are states rebelling against the federal government? Because the system was broken on purpose, by progressives, who need direct democracy so that fear and intimidation can drive the polity to allow top down federal rule as the only viable solution.

So our central planning friends view separation of powers to mean separating you from their power, so they can go about the business of managing your lives, and no one has worked harder or longer to excise the power from the people than democrats, though the ruling class Neo-Cons have done plenty to help fill the picnic basket for grandma.

But there is a solution to this problem, one that can relieve the pressure of special interests, the boys club mentality, and the lack of responsiveness by the federal legislature to the state and the people.