Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I
- November 15, 2021
When weighing whether to impeach a sitting president, we consider how other presidents have acted. It is regrettable but true that many Presidents have routinely played fast and loose with the truth, acted incompetently, and used their office to attack political opponents.
READ MOREIn fact . . . the claim that slaveholders adopted the Constitution is substantially false.
READ MOREFor many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
READ MORE. . . [A]ctivities over which the Constitution granted the federal government little or no jurisdiction [included] social services . . . education, religion, real estate, local businesses, most roads and other infrastructure, nearly all criminal law matters, and most civil court cases.
READ MOREThe framers modeled the Electoral College on indirect election systems then prevailing in Scotland and Maryland, in which elector discretion was pivotal.
READ MOREIronically, by adopting the term “red flag law,” promoters inadvertently admitted their real motive is not safety. This is because the phrase “red flag law” has been proverbial for an enactment masquerading as a safety measure but really passed for more sinister reasons.
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