Our Quadrennial National Convention: The Electoral College
The baseless argument that a “national convention can do anything” never has had any force with the national convention known as the Electoral College.
The case for Colorado’s Amendment 78
A core tenet of Anglo-American government: Public revenues and expenditures must be under the control of the legislature.
Immigration: How Biden Is violating the Constitution
The current situation at the southern border . . . is an “invasion” as the Constitution uses the term. Biden’s failure to stop it is a violation of the Guarantee Clause.
Understanding the Constitution: the English foundation
When educators underplay the English background in service to the “diversity” agenda, they leave their students clueless as to the meaning and significance of the Constitution, and susceptible to “woke” propaganda.
Understanding the Constitution: Constitutional amendments work
The lamp of experience sheds light unmistakably bright and clear: Constitutional amendments work.
Avoiding secession through an amendments convention
We have everything to gain from a convention of states and nothing to lose. . . We have a moral and legal obligation to employ that constitutional tool before splitting up the country.
Is it “too late” for an amendments convention?
These objections are not real. They are excuses made by lazy and cowardly people avoiding their civic responsibility.
Mr. President, Do the right thing: End the unconstitutional vaccination mandate
There is no Supreme Court authority higher than [Chief Justice] Marshall, and he himself told us that “health laws of every description” are matters for determination by the states.
Abortion: The truth about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Texas Heartbeat Act
The Supreme Court finally declined to privilege a pro-abortion litigant. Instead, it applied the sort of common-sense standard it would apply to any other legal dispute.
Understanding the Constitution: Can the 25th amendment be used to remove Biden?
The 25th amendment is seriously ambiguous. It creates uncertainties that discourage using its procedure.
Bicycle damage to mountain parks a government failure
A sharp increase in Colorado mountain biking, caused partly by population rise but primarily by new bike technology, caused cyclists to flood the mountain parks. Administrators have failed to respond effectively
Video: Rob Natelson: “The courts have gone AWOL during the pandemic”
Rob Natelson, Senior Fellow of Constitutional Jurisprudence at The Independence Institute, talks with Jon Caldara about the courts’ failure to enforce their own constitutional rights precedents against government overreaching during the pandemic: View on YouTube