This Day at the Convention of 1787: Compromise, Compromise, Compromise
Three pivotal decisions were made on June 8: the Connecticut Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the New Jersey Compromise. ...
Constitution
Convention of States Ad for “Simulated Convention” Gets History Wrong — Again
For one thing, COS people demonstrably lie when they state that the Founders envisaged a new convention "as a check and balance on...
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Army Excuse for Renaming Fort Bragg Full of False History
The renaming of Ft. Bragg is just one of the administration's egregious attempts to erase America's true history. ...
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Mark Levin: Con-Con Is Only Way to Save America
Actually, the only way to save America is to elect state legislators and governors who will rein in Washington by applying the Tenth...
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This Week in 1789 James Madison Proposes the Bill of Rights
Madison's words to the First Congress in support of the Bill of Rights would become one of the most famous orations in defense...
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The Petition of Right of 1628: A Forgotten Cornerstone of Our Constitution
The document's significance must be taught to modern-day Americans who carry on the fight to force our federal beast back inside its constitutional...
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Fourteenth Amendment: Tool of Tyranny, but Was It Legally Ratified?
The Fourteenth Amendment is the tool that tyrants have used to construct much of the unconstitutional machinery that operates on the lives, liberty,...
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Rhode Island: First to Fight for Freedom, Last to Join the Union
Where is Rhode Island? That is not a question anyone at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 would have asked. Not because they didn’t...
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Supreme Court Opinion in Sackett v. EPA Restores Limits on the Power of the Bureaucracy
Thursday's decision is a victory for federalism, state sovereignty, enumerated powers, and property rights. ...
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ATF: Amend or Abolish?
The ATF's very existence is anathema to the principles of freedom in the U.S. Constitution. There should be no agency devoted to infringing...
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On This Day in 1787: Constitutional Convention Gets Down to Business
On day one of the convention, the delegates unanimously selected George Washington as president of the proceedings, and formed the rules committee, which...
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Abolish the Department of Education, Says Former Education Secretary DeVos
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that the Department of Education should be shuttered because it has “no good reason … to...
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Virginians Prepare to Present New Plan of Government: What Is the Ideal Commonwealth?
The second article in our summer series on the 1787 Constitutional Convention looks at one of James Madison's meetings in preparation for the...
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Ted Cruz’s Democratic Challenger: Better if Second Amendment Had Never Been Written
Colin Allred also stated that, although there's "no chance" of repealing the amendment, there is "plenty of room" for common-sense reforms. ...
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Introduction to “The Business of May Next”: The Convention of 1787
In May 1787, our Founding Fathers undertook a “grand experiment” to construct a constitution that would avoid contracting the various diseases that destroyed...
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