Supreme Court Just Helped out the Real Colorado
- July 19, 2024
New Hampshire was, and is, quite a small state, but its ratification was particularly significant.
READ MORE. . . if you want to apply the Founders’ own rules of interpretation to the Constitution, the understanding of the ratifiers is most important.
READ MOREAn extra-constitutional action may be legal or illegal.
READ MORESo what was the understanding in 1787-90? I have pieced this together over many years. In a nutshell, here it is:
READ MOREOpponents then — like their successors today — claimed they were protecting the Constitution. But what they actually were (and are) doing is protecting judges and politicians who abuse their positions by changing constitutional rules without following the normal democratic process.
READ MOREOf course, the political establishment doesn’t want you to exercise this constitutional right. So they use the same tactics vote-suppressors use: disinformation and fear.
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