May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
Educated citizens who enter politics eventually learn that deep ignorance is not unusual among elected officials. To idealists, the discovery can be a shock.
READ MOREMorris’ approach was unique and has served as an inspiration for constitution-makers ever since.
READ MOREOpponents of the new tax law are right to be concerned about federal overreaching, but they are barking up the wrong tree. They are inventing a fictional limit on federal authority while ignoring real ones.
READ MOREOnce again, we are threatened with a federal government “shutdown.” Well, this citizen out in the hinterland says, “Bring it on!” Most of the functions that would be interrupted aren’t really constitutional anyway, and we could do well without them. In fact, we should defund some of them permanently to help close the federal deficit.
READ MOREFortunately, by the time the Constitution was written, this verbal confusion had been pretty much been sorted out.
READ MORERob’s new research demonstrates that bans on “sectarian” aid were . . . designed to require state officials to discriminate in favor of mainstream Protestantism and against any faiths they deemed “bigoted” or “extreme.”
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