Constitutions don’t enforce themselves. That’s why James Madison called them “parchment barriers.” While there are plenty of examples of this at the federal level, it’s worth looking at a situation at the state level that perhaps demonstrates this even more so.
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Mary’s Moral Militia, Part 1
The other day I was reading George Washington’s 6th State of the Union Address (typical beach reading when you are running for office) and was surprised to see this bit:
Canadian Mounted Police Officer Talks About Law and Rights and Illegal COVID19 Policy
Canadian Mounted Police Officer Talks About Law and Rights and Illegal COVID19 Policy
Daniel Beaufort is a corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For eight years, his job was protecting the Prime Minister. Yeah, that Trudeau guy. And he’s concerned about the direction his country has taken in the name of “public health.”
Essential: New Law Protects Houses of Worship from Capricious Emergency Orders
During the pandemic panic, Emergency orders ran roughshod over individual rights. Courts in NH, tasked with defending citizens against Constitutional infringements, aided and abetted the abuses. One of those abuses was declaring places of worship non-essential, but NH has added a new law to protect them.
The Radical Egalitarians And Their Rival Constitution
The U.S. Constitution, the one the founders wrote, holds that all men are created equal. We are endowed by our “nature and nature’s God” with unalienable rights. Those rights precede government. Further, the purpose of the state is to protect those rights and to treat all citizens equally.
Interview – Why Is the Texas Presidential Election Is Different
Abstracted from a post from the Daily Torch – an outlet for ALG (Americans for Limited Government) with permission (emphasis mine):
Gov. Kirsti Noem – Leaders Need to “Know Their Place” and Not “Overstep Their Authority”
Our prognostication has long since come to pass. Public Health truly is just another mule for tyranny. And those beasts of burden have names in both political parties, though most are Democrats—people who have no intention of allowing anything to interfere with this exercise of power.
Judge Rules Ohio’s COVID Response is Impermissibly Arbitrary, Unreasonable, and Oppressive
Judge Eugene Lucci has some unpleasant things to say about how Ohio exercised or assumed powers to which he claims it is not entitled after 35 gyms took the state to court over threats of punishment for reopening against the will of the state.
603 Summit: Dan Itse
Dan Itse is a former long time NH State Representative and recognized as an expert on our Constitutions (both NH and US) (and a Grokster!) and was representing the Madison Project. He concentrates on a new (but well over due and in line with the REINS Act) in talking about The Regulation Freedom Amendment to … Read more