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Constitutional Minute – 2-20-24: Recall in Virginia

Constitutional Minute – 1-23-24: Why We Chouldn’t Change to a National Popular Vote, Part 2

Constitutional Minute – 1-16-24: Why We Shouldn’t Change to a National Popular Vote

Constitutional Minute – 1-9-24: Who is a “Natural Born Citizen?”

Constitutional Minute – 12-12-23: Amending the Virginia Constitution

Constitutional Minute – 11-21-23: The Decline of Natural Law

Constitutional Minute – 11-14-23: Natural Law – A Primer

Constitutional Minute – 10-24-23-Update: The 14th Amendment Issue Isn’t Going Away — But Soon Will

Constitutional Minute – 10-24-23: The 14th Amendment Issue Isn’t Going Away

Constitutional Minute – 09-12-23-Addendum: An Update

Constitutional Minute – 09-12-23: If Not an Article V Convention, Then What?

Constitutional Minute – 09-05-23: Controlling and Article V Convention

Constitutional Minute – 08-29-23: “The Runaway Convention” Myth

Constitutional Minute – 08-08-23: Reflections on the Bill of Rights

Constitutional Minute – 08-01-23: The Tenth Amendment

Constitutional Minute – 07-25-23: Right #25: Protection of Unenumerated Rights

Constitutional Minute – 07-18-23: Right #24: Protection from Cruel and Unusual Punishments

Constitutional Minute – 07-11-23: Right #23: Protection from excessive bail and fines

Constitutional Minute – 07-04-23: Right #22: The Right to a Jury Trial in Common Law Cases

Constitutional Minute – 06-27-23: Right #21: The Right to the Assistance of Counsel

Constitutional Minute – 06-20-23: Right #20: The Right to Confront and Compel Witnesses

Constitutional Minute – 06-13-23: Right #19: The Right to be Notified of the Charges Against You

Constitutional Minute – 06-06-23: Right #18: The Right to a Local Trial

Constitutional Minute – 05-30-23: Right #17 (continued, again) Jury Nullification

Constitutional Minute – 05-23-23: Right #17 (continued) What’s Jury Nullification?

Constitutional Minute – 05-16-23: Right #17: Right to an Impartial Jury

Constitutional Minute – 05-09-23: Right #16: Right to a Speedy and Public Trial

Constitutional Minute – 05–2-23: Right #15: Protection Against “Takings”

Constitutional Minute – 04-25-23: Right #14: Due Process of Law Guarantee

Constitutional Minute = 04-18-23: Right #13: Protection Against Self-Incrimination

Constitutional Minute – 04-11-23: Right #12: Protection Against Double Jeopardy

Constitutional Minute – 04-04-23: Right #11: The Right to a Grand Jury Indictment

Constitutional Minute – 03-28-21: Right #10: The Right to be Secure Against Unreasonable Searches

Constitutional Minute – 03-21-23: Right #9: The Right to be Secure in Your Property

Constitutional Minute – 03-14-23: Right #8: Protection Against Quartering

Constitutional Minute – 03-07-23: Right #7: Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Constitutional Minute – l02-28-23: Right #6: Freedom to Petition for a Redress of Grievances

Constitutional Minute – 02-21-23: Right #5: Freedom of Assembly

Constitutional Minute – 02-14-23: Right #4: Freedom of the Press

Constitutional Minute – 02-07-23: Right #3: Freedom of Speech

Constitutional Minute – 01-31-23: Right#2: Religious Exercise

Constitutional Minute – 01-24-23: Right#1: No National Religion

Constitutional Minute – 01-17-23: Why a Bill of Rights?

Constitutional Minute – 01-10-23: News Flash: Article V of the Constitution Has Been Repealed

Constitutional Minute – 01-03-23: When is the Law, not Law?

Constitutional Minute – 12-27-22: Life Without the Bill of Rights – Part 2

Constitutional Minute – 12-20-22: Life Without the Bill of Rights – Part 1

Constitutional Minute – 12-13-22: Musings on the Bill of Rights

Constitutional Minute – 12-06-22: Reserved Powers

Constitutional Minute – 11-29-22: Death by a Thousand Cuts – Our Constitution of “Reasonableness”

Constitutional Minute – 11-22-22: The “Wall of Separation” After Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Constitutional Minute – 11-15-22: What is a Constitution and Why do We Have One? Part Deux

Constitutional Minute – 11-08-22: Nine Contentious Elections in America

Constitutional Minute – 11-01-22: What is a Constitution and Why do We Have One?

Constitutional Minute – 10-18-22: The Alien and Sedition Laws

Constitutional Minute – 10-11-22: A Review of Federal Voting Laws

Constitutional Minute – 10-04-22: What Rights Do Public School Students Have?

Constitutional Minute – 09-27-22: More on Constitutional Protests at the Supreme Court

Constitutional Minute – 09-17-22: Constitution Day Musings

Constitutional Minute – 09-13-22: The Right of Protest

Constitutional Minute – 09-06-22: The Johnson Amendment – Silencing Pastors Across the Nation

Constitutional Minute – 08-30-22: Congress? Shall Make No Law? – The Incorporation Doctrine

Constitutional Minute – 08-02-22: “Just Who Do We Think We Are?”

Constitutional minute – 07-26-22: Emergency Executive Orders

Constitutional Minute – 06-28-22: Removing Another Brick from the Wall of Separation

From 2017 – Mr. Gorsuch Tear Down This Wall

From 2017 – Yes, Tear Down This Wall

Constitutional Minute – 06-14-22: The Supreme Court Gets it Wrong – Again

Constitutional Minute – 06-07-22: Dismantling Leviathan

Constitutional Minute – 05-31-22: The 14th Amendment’s “Insurrection” Clause

Constitutional Minute – 05-24-22: The 14th Amendment and Equal Protection

Constitutional Minute – 05-17-22: The 14th Amendment; Wait, Wait There’s More

Constitutional Minute – 05-10-22: The 14th Amendment and Due Process

Constitutional Minute – 05-03-22: The 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship

Constitutional Minute – 04-26-22: Removing a President – The 25th Amendment

Constitutional Minute – 04-19-22: The Incorporation Doctrine – Did the Bill of Rights Bind the States?

Constitutional Minute – 04-12-22: Gun Control: After Heller

Constitutional Minute – 04-05-22: The Right of Self Preservation, Part 2, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Constitutional Minute – 03-29-22: The Right of Self-Preservation

Constitutional Minute – 03-22-22: Liberty of Conscience

Constitutional Minute – 03-15-22: Fixing Our Damaged Constitution

Constitutional Minute – 03-08-22: The Least Dangerous Branch?

Constitutional Minute – 03-01-22: Property Rights vs Community Interest

Constitutional Minute – 02-22-22: Can the Government Take My Property?

Constitutional Minute – 02-15-22: Is the Electoral College Racist?

Constitutional Minute – 02-8-22: The So-Called “National Popular Vote”

Constitutional Minute – 02-1-22: “With the Advice and Consent of the Senate

Constitutional Minute – 01-18-22: Is There a Right to Protest?

Constitutional Minute – 01-11-22: Presidential Executive Orders

Constitutional Minute – 01-04-22: Separation of Powers

Constitutional Minute – 12-28-21: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves of 1798

Constitutional Minute – 12-21-21: Ten Questions to Ask Candidates for Local Office in Virginia

Constitutional Minute – 12-14-21: Ten Questions to Ask Candidates for State Office in Virginia

Constitutional Minute – 12-7-21: Ten Questions to Ask Candidates for Congress

Constitutional Minute – 11-30-21: Choosing Candidates for Office

Constitutional Minute – 11-16-21: The Constitution and Natural Law; Which is Supreme, Part 2

Constitutional Minute – 11-16-21: The Constitution and Natural Law; Which is Supreme

Constitutional Minute – 11-9-21: Amending the Constitution

Constitutional Minute – 10-26-21: Does the Constitution Create Rights?

Constitutional Minute -10-19-21: Enumerated Powers, or Not?

Constitutional Minute-10-12-21: Interpreting the Constitution

Constitutional Minute-10-05-21: Choosing Good Candidates for Office

Constitutional Minute-09-28-21: Churches and Politics

Constitutional Minute-09-21-21: The Right of Self-Preservation – An Essay

Constitutional Minute-09-07-21: Evictions Anyone?

Constitutional Minute-08-03-21: Tyranny? Under a Constitution?

Constitutional Minute-07-27-21: April 8, 1913 – The Day Federalism Died

Constitutional Minute-07-20-21: Refuting the 1619 Project

Constitutional Minute-07-06-21: Why Do We Have the Bill of Rights?

Constitutional Minute-06-22-21: Can You Pass This 8th Grade Civics Test from 1954?

Constitutional Minute-06-15-21: How Should We Interpret The Constitution? The Role of the Declaration.

Constitutional Minute-06-01-21: President or King?  Which will it be?  Our Love Affair With Our Presidents

Constitutional Minute-05-03-21: Can the People, through the Congress, control the Supreme Court?

Constitutional Minute-04-27-21: Who Makes the Laws?

Constitutional Minute-04-20-21: What’s General Welfare?