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The new mainstream media tactic: Keep ‘em ignorant 0
- November 24, 2020
The [Electoral College] has protected us against highly fractured results and purely regional candidates in almost every election since 1824.
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Even with Amy Coney Barrett, we don’t really have a conservative Supreme Court 0
- November 24, 2020
At the close of every annual court term, commentators express surprise that so many of the court’s decisions over the previous year have been liberal. They never make the simple deduction that if the court is producing so many liberal decisions, then perhaps it is not “conservative” after all.
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The Left’s War on the Constitution 0
- October 21, 2020
[T]he “progressives” have lost the argument over constitutional meaning. And that is why they have pivoted to assail the document itself.
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The Electoral College: The target of politicians who would make things worse 0
- May 14, 2020
If we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
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The “right to travel”0
- May 10, 2020
Most people would recognize the right to travel as an inherent, natural right of free people, and the courts say that it is the Constitution. But is it really there?
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Civics 101: How to understand the Constitution 0
- May 3, 2020
“Here’s an important, but widely overlooked, feature: The document doesn’t grant power only to federal officials. It also confers power on persons and entities who are not part of the U.S. government at all.”
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