MicroGroks
Have you ever heard anyone make reference to the first amendment? Have you ever read it yourself? Do you understand what it says? It is quite plain.
Clarence Thomas is our era’s most consequential jurist, as radical as he is brave. During his almost three decades on the bench, he has been laying out a blueprint for remaking Supreme Court jurisprudence. His template is the Constitution as the Framers wrote it during that hot summer in Philadelphia 232 years ago, when they …
Doodling under Steve’s post on the Eighth Amendment, I realized it was time to spin off a separate article. The Bill of Rights says what the FEDERAL government cannot do to you, and the Fourteenth Amendment attempts to extend those protections into the several formerly sovereign states (and once upon a time, especially in states …
Feds vs States: The Eighth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Read More »
The abridged definition of “Freedom” is how many choices one can make, unforced and unfettered. I get to make the choice – not you and not Government. When you and Government starting making those decisions for me, that by definition, is less Freedom. The Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, was …
Freedom depends on who gets to choose and make the decisions Read More »
