Tag: US Constitution

On Constitutional Rights and NH Law

March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 Isabella Peters

Growing up homeschooled in New Hampshire meant that after I learned my “ABC’s” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” my parents quickly taught me the “Preamble Song” by Schoolhouse Rock!. If you’re not familiar with it, the song is – as the title suggests—the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution set to a catchy tune. As the … Read more

“Tradition Is Not the Worship of Ashes, but the Preservation of Fire.”

December 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts is featured in the most recent edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. The topic is “Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order.” He opens with this. The top-down, elitist brand of politics that has dominated the United States since the end of the Cold War—under Republican and Democratic administrations alike—has failed. Yes, we … Read more

This Is How Our Country Will Fall – From The Inside Out, Deliberately

October 1, 2024 Skip

A recent survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center shows that roughly one-third of adult Americans are unable to name the three branches of the federal government. We are so screwed – and the Progressives are very happy over that factoid. Ann Marie Banfield has sounded the alarm on the DEI-infused Progressive group called NH … Read more

Understanding the Constitution and Loving It

July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 Op-Ed

I was amazed to see the slew of commentary that followed the July 13, 2024, Trump event in Bethel, PA, and the canceling of Biden’s campaign. It worries me that people are talking rapturously about an imminent “next stage of American history” as if it will come about by “forces”. Or by “players.” Or maybe … Read more

The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution

December 17, 2023 Op-Ed

The Bill of Rights turns 232 years old today. Adopted in 1791 as a consolation prize for the Anti-Federalists, it has been perhaps the most important part of American legal history since the eighteenth century and has served as an inconvenient reminder of the laissez-faire libertarian philosophy that permeated American political theory in the late 18th century.

The Founders and the Constitution: Introduction

June 25, 2023June 24, 2023 Op-Ed

This series of essays focuses on those American Founders who exercised the most influence on the original Constitution as amended by the Bill of Rights. Each essay thumbnails the life and contributions of at least one individual. The essays also will tell you more about “the supreme Law of the Land.”

Now, More Than Ever, We The People And COS

May 16, 2023 Ray Cardello

You do not have to watch the news for long to realize we have lost control of our government, and some may say we have lost our way. We have a former President who has a significant lead in the polls against all challengers and head-to-head against Biden.

Smoke Your Pocket Constitution? Forward Government Thinkers vs. Road Blockers

November 12, 2024April 17, 2023 Hal Shurtleff

On behalf of Camp Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft and I recently presented a donation of 1,500 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Alton-Barnstead, NH, Schools.

The Basic Idea Behind a Constitution

April 11, 2023 Ian Underwood

When you have kids, you start looking around for all the harmful things they might do by accident, like stick a finger in a socket, drink cleaning fluids from under the sink, climb out a second-story window, fall down some stairs, or drown in a toilet, and so on.

Sir Isaac Newton Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

The Ideas That Formed the Constitution: Sir Isaac Newton

April 11, 2023 Op-Ed

Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t a political thinker like Marcus Cicero or John Locke. He was a scientist. Indeed, he exemplified the Scientific Revolution—an event that changed not only how people thought about the physical universe, but also how they thought about politics and government.

2A To Keep and bear arms, amendment 2 photo by SteveM

Refuting the Claim that the Second Amendment was Intended to Protect Slavery

April 10, 2023 Op-Ed

In efforts to undermine the Second Amendment, gun control advocates advance a variety of arguments claiming it does not confer an individual right to keep and bear arms and that it was ratified for reasons that make it morally illegitimate today.

Privacy vs. Security

April 8, 2023 Amil Imani

Since well before we eagerly leaped into the world of high technology, we gave very little thought to the possibility that someday we would find ourselves at a perilous fork in the road as a society, culture, and country.

Article V Misrepresentation

April 5, 2023 Op-Ed

Lobbyist Ken Quinn failed, once again, to convince State legislators to call for a Constitutional Convention. Instead of realizing he has a losing argument, he blames legislators for not voting the way his polls predicted they should on HCR 1 & HCR 4.

The Bill of Rights: On the Ropes But Not Yet Counted Out

December 15, 2022 Op-Ed

December 15 marks the 231^st anniversary of the ratification of the first 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, known as The Bill of Rights. Sadly, most Americans have little or no knowledge of these amendments, which is the main reason they are “on the ropes.”

Power to the Patriots: NH Files to Adopt Convention of States

November 27, 2022 Aaron Warner

NH Resolution 2023-0275, sponsored by JD Bernardy (Rockingham District 16), brings the resolution to adopt New Hampshire as the 20th state to move toward a Convention of States (COS). Bernardy, husband, and father of three, is a veteran of the United States Navy and a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center. The resolution has been … Read more

Gilford School Board Meeting – They Have Finally Seen the Light! Well, except for One School Board Member

October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 Skip

Monday night was the October monthly meeting of the School Board, and this month was a joint meeting with the Gilmanton School Board (they tuition their high school students into Gilford High). Thus, the meeting was longer than normal; the video of that joint meeting is below.

Campus reform on the street interviews abortion

Yep, another “Man In The Street” with a hook: $20 if you can find abortion mentioned in the US Constitution

September 24, 2022September 24, 2022 Skip

Yes, I probably keep too much content around, a lot of it months old as I keep thinking, “I NEED to put this up…” and then get distracted – too many Shiny Objects. Sigh.

Constitutional Genealogy: The New England Confederation of 1643

September 4, 2022 Op-Ed

The foundational ideas underlying the Constitution took root long before the founders drafted the document. In fact, they began to take root in the earliest days of American colonialization.

The Constitution; Lost in Plain Sight

August 6, 2022 Op-Ed

The Constitution has been interpreted to create two types of citizens, each requiring their own courts. State citizens have District and Circuit courts of the United States. Citizens of the Federal government have United States District courts and the United States courts of Appeal. Everyone thinks that they are a State citizen when, in fact, they are Federal citizens who do not enjoy the Bill of Rights, or most Common Law rights.

So the Editors at the Laconia Daily Sun believe that the US Constitution GIVES us our Rights?

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Op-Ed

In the June 27 edition of the Sun, Richard Tracy made a great point about rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, the editors at the Sun may not fully understand the concept of inalienable rights. The headline of the letter read, “Second Amendment at core gives right to self-defense.”