Constitution
Tea Party Wants to Dump 17th Amendment?
There is a sizable bloc of Tea Party supporters calling for repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 17th...
Burnt U.S. Flag Displayed in Student Art Show
A partially burned American flag appearing as part of a student art exhibit has drawn opposition from a Veterans of Foreign Wars commander...
Read moreObama: Life Imprisonment Without Trial
President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force has “unanimously” concluded that 48 detainees at Guantanamo should be detained indefinitely — in essence, a life...
Read moreNew Cross Controversy Erupts in Illinois
After the protracted battle for the so-called “Mojave Cross” in California which was finally settled in the Supreme Court in favor of the...
Read moreWho Needs a New Constitutional Convention?
You have probably griped under your breath, “There ought to be a law to stop these people,” when confronted by a particularly noxious...
Read moreNo Habeas Corpus for Bagram Detainees
A federal court of appeals on May 21 ruled that detainees held by the United States at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan...
Read moreSupreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Clearly Opaque
When President Obama named Elena Kagan as his nominee for justice of the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, he...
Read moreStates’ Suit Against ObamaCare: Miles to Go to the Supreme Court
As has been faithfully chronicled by The New American, the attorneys general of 20 states have joined as plaintiffs in a lawsuit aimed...
Read moreThe Second Amendment in National Parks
The Second Amendment prohibits Congress from passing laws that interfere with a citizen’s right to bear arms. A recent amendment proposed by Senator...
Read moreThe Cost of Educating the Children of Illegal Aliens: Exorbitant
A new study prepared for The Social Contract Press entitled “The Burden of Plyler v. Doe,” by economic journalist Edwin S. Rubenstein highlights...
Read moreLawmakers Launch 10th Amendment Task Force
As the Tenth Amendment movement to restore constitutional principles in government gathers momentum, a group of Republican Representatives in Congress announced the formation...
Read moreThe ObamaCare Mandate: Constitutional Tax?
In a now famous admission of disregard for our nation’s founding document, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when asked where in...
Read moreSupreme Court Rules in Favor of Mojave Cross
On Wednesday, April 28, in a surprising 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court, justices ruled that the 1st Amendment “accommodates” for...
Read moreMedia Calls the Tea Party Patriots “Seditious”
When Joe Klein of Time magazine was forced to defend his comments about Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck coming “close to being seditious,”...
Read moreEminent Domain and the Kelo Echo
“This is abuse…. It’s [another] case of eminent domain abuse,” said Renee Smith-Ward, owner of Wag’In Tail, a dog-grooming salon in Auburn, New...
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