Constitution
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...
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. ...
Read moreATF: 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...
Read moreOn 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...
Read moreAbolish 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...
Read moreVirginians 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...
Read moreTed 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. ...
Read moreIntroduction 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...
Read moreU.S. Supreme Court: Above and Beyond the Reach of Congress?
In his letter refusing to testify in Congress about Supreme Court ethics, Chief Justice John Roberts demonstrates his attitude that his branch of...
Read moreSouth Dakota Senator Exposes COS Deceit and Fake Petitions Including From His Own Wife
In this exclusive interview with The New American, Senator David Johnson (R-33), a South Dakota legislator and officer in the US Air Force and...
Read moreResolutions to Rescind Con-Con Applications Introduced in Alabama
The bills' sponsors rightly note that "the powers delegated by the Constitution of 1787 to the federal government are few and defined, and...
Read moreConvention of States Letter Full of Contradictions
This week, this writer received a fundraising letter from the Convention of States (COS) organization, signed by its president, Mark Meckler — a...
Read morePublius-Huldah: A Thorn in the side of COS
In today’s spotlight is legal scholar Joanna Martin, popularly known under her pseudonym Publius-Huldah. For decades she has been a tireless defender of...
Read moreSCOTUS to Revisit “Chevron Deference”
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review lower courts’ rulings enabling federal observers to ride along on fishermen’s boats to make...
Read morePro-Constitutional Convention NGO Plays Dirty as Birchers Mount Victories
The push for an Article V Constitutional Convention to amend the Constitution — or a Con-Con — is the attempt to con well-meaning, patriotic...
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