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| Constitutional Corner: Natural Law Today – A Question of Rights | Open as PDF “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable (as Jefferson wrote … | 2017/10/09 | admin | Essay | 2017-10-09 19:56:40 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Mind of James Madison, Part 1 | Open as PDF I had the pleasure of interviewing on my weekly radio show last … | 2017/10/02 | admin | Essay | 2017-10-02 16:47:37 |
| Constitutional Corner – A Brief History of Virginia’s State Constitution | Open as PDF If you want an introduction to the philosophy of government as understood … | 2017/08/04 | admin | Essay | 2017-08-04 16:37:01 |
| Constitutional Corner – The War in the Courts | Open as PDF In his 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution,[1] the eminent jurist Joseph Story … | 2017/07/22 | admin | Essay | 2017-07-22 23:07:13 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Left’s War on Speech | Open as PDF The Progressive Left is engaged in a war on free speech. Don’t … | 2017/05/28 | admin | Essay | 2017-05-28 19:19:10 |
| Constitutional Corner –100 Days of Trump — and the Constitution | Open as PDF Well, Mr. Trump has survived his first 100 days in office — … | 2017/05/15 | admin | Essay | 2017-05-15 21:27:26 |
| Constitutional Corner – Yes, Tear Down This Wall! | Open as PDF “[The wall of separation] metaphor is based on bad history, a metaphor … | 2017/04/24 | admin | Uncategorized | 2017-04-24 20:17:21 |
| Constitutional Corner – Mr. Gorsuch, Tear Down This Wall! | Constitutional Corner – Mr. Gorsuch, Tear Down This Wall![1] Open as PDF In the years … | 2017/04/16 | admin | Essay | 2017-04-16 21:09:20 |
| Constitutional Corner – Sanctuary Cities and the Constitution | Open as PDF On January 25, 2017, Donald Trump carried through on a campaign promise … | 2017/04/09 | admin | Essay | 2017-04-09 20:46:27 |
| Constitutional Corner – Healthcare and the Constitution | Open as PDF There is not a single word in the Constitution which gives the … | 2017/04/04 | admin | Essay | 2017-04-04 08:16:41 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Right of Self Preservation | Open as PDF In 1775, Alexander Hamilton wrote: “The sacred rights of mankind are not … | 2017/03/25 | admin | Essay | 2017-03-25 10:56:24 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Right of Protest | Open as PDF Wikipedia[1] says “[t]he right to protest is a perceived human right arising … | 2017/03/20 | admin | Essay | 2017-03-20 21:30:52 |
| Constitution Corner – The Right of Conscience | Open as PDF “… there is great reason to fear that a positive declaration of … | 2017/03/05 | admin | Essay | 2017-03-05 18:23:53 |
| Constitution Corner – The Rights of Illegal Aliens | Open as PDF Let’s say a Mexican national decides to illegally enter America and is … | 2017/02/27 | admin | Essay | 2017-02-27 09:51:18 |
| Constitution Corner – Has Trump Violated the Constitution? | Open as PDF Is Donald Trump receiving an “emolument” by allowing his hotels and other … | 2017/02/19 | admin | Essay | 2017-02-19 14:54:13 |
| Constitution Corner – The 17th Amendment Should Be Repealed | Open as PDF Note: On “We the People – The Constitution Matters” for 6 January … | 2017/01/06 | admin | Essay | 2017-01-06 20:12:39 |
| Constitutional Corner – Celebrate Your Rights | Open as PDF Today, December 15th, we celebrate Bill of Rights Day, the day, in … | 2016/12/15 | admin | Uncategorized | 2016-12-15 06:34:42 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Great Confusement or, The Fiction of a National Popular Vote | Open as PDF There seems to be great disagreement as to whether “confusement” is a … | 2016/12/13 | admin | Uncategorized | 2016-12-13 16:25:58 |
| Constitutional Corner – Musings on the Article V Convention Simulation | Open as PDF Although I would have much preferred to have been able to observe … | 2016/09/29 | admin | Essay | 2016-09-29 19:55:16 |
| Constitution’s Week in Review – 27 August 2016 | Article 1, Section 2. Apportionment The original Constitution set Congressional representation at 1 Representative for … | 2016/08/27 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-08-27 20:51:45 |
| Constitutional Corner – “With a Firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence” | Open as PDF On “We the People – The Constitution Matters,” my Friday morning radio … | 2016/08/24 | admin | Essay | 2016-08-24 12:09:40 |
| Constitutional Corner – Securing the Blessings | Open as PDF Part of the Constitution’s goals, stated in the Preamble, is to “secure … | 2016/08/21 | admin | Uncategorized | 2016-08-21 20:48:04 |
| Constitution’s Week in Review – 20 August 2016 | As I watched some of the Olympics coverage this week I couldn’t help reflect on … | 2016/08/20 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-08-20 14:06:23 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Contingent Election | What if neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump receives a majority of electoral votes on … | 2016/08/11 | admin | Essay | 2016-08-11 11:25:56 |
| Constitutional Corner – Impeaching Hillary | Andrew McCarthy has an article in the latest National Review magazine entitled “Impeach Her” … | 2016/08/11 | admin | Essay | 2016-08-11 11:13:13 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 30 July 16 | Meanwhile in the States, it’s all about voting: To review: There is no natural, unalienable … | 2016/07/30 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-07-30 12:07:37 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 23 July 16 | Article 1 – The Legislature: Apportioned Representation I discussed on my radio show not too … | 2016/07/24 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-07-24 14:50:40 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Character of a Prince | Open as PDF “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may … | 2016/07/21 | admin | Essay | 2016-07-21 10:35:48 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 16 July 16 | Article 1 – The Legislature: Separation of Powers. Republicans in Congress made great hoopla[1] over … | 2016/07/21 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-07-21 10:32:38 |
| Constitutional Corner – Right of Petition | Open as PDF “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in … | 2016/07/14 | admin | Essay | 2016-07-14 09:06:57 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 9 July 16 | Article 1 – The Legislature A few of you may not subscribe to National Review … | 2016/07/09 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-07-09 12:49:37 |
| Constitutional Corner – A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations | Open as PDF Mr. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is often quoted in order to expound … | 2016/07/05 | admin | Essay | 2016-07-05 22:12:52 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 2 July 16 | Happy Birthday America! Most people associate July 4th with our nation’s “birth” (the day was … | 2016/07/03 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-07-03 10:05:53 |
| The Founders’ View of Natural Law | Note: A few months ago someone in my area decided to form a Natural Law … | 2016/06/29 | admin | Essay | 2016-06-29 19:37:51 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 25 June 16 | Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings … | 2016/06/25 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-06-25 20:10:00 |
| Constitutional Corner – Death by a Thousand Cuts – Our Constitution of “Reasonableness” | I listened to a radio show recently where two supposed conservatives were discussing the Orlando … | 2016/06/23 | admin | Essay | 2016-06-23 09:48:42 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 18 June 16 | Article 2 – Impeachment We traditionally link impeachment to the Presidency, for good reason: impeachment … | 2016/06/18 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-06-18 19:46:44 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 4 June 2016 | The Declaration of Independence Everyone who has attended my seminar can tell you that there … | 2016/06/04 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-06-04 17:36:17 |
| Constitutional Corner – Secession (Redux)[1] | Open as PDF In Gulf, C. & S. F. R. CO. v. Ellis, 165 U.S. … | 2016/06/01 | admin | Essay | 2016-06-01 21:12:24 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 28 May 2016 | It was a very busy week, and the next two weeks will be as well; … | 2016/05/29 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-05-29 14:41:29 |
| Constitutional Corner – Toilette Tyranny | Open as PDF The quest to fundamentally transform America continues unabated. Doesn’t that just warm … | 2016/05/25 | admin | Essay | 2016-05-25 20:29:53 |
| Constitutional Corner – Impeaching Obama | Open as PDF I’ll try to keep this short; I’ve written about impeaching the President … | 2016/05/17 | admin | Essay | 2016-05-17 11:03:34 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 14 May 2016 | Article 2: Qualifications of the President. Now that Ted Cruz has suspended his presidential campaign, … | 2016/05/15 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-05-15 16:46:26 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 7 May 2016 | Article 2: Qualifications of the President. On Friday, April 29, The Arizona Republic newspaper posted … | 2016/05/07 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-05-07 18:40:45 |
| Constitutional Corner – Abuse of Executive Power | Open as PDF “[T]he president doesn’t have the authority to simply ignore Congress and say, … | 2016/05/04 | admin | Essay | 2016-05-04 19:47:51 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 30 Apr 2016 | Article 2: Qualifications of the President. The Constitution is not a terribly complex document: seven … | 2016/04/30 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-04-30 18:51:21 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 23 Apr 2016 | Article 2: Faithfully Execute the Laws. All eyes were on the Supreme Court on Monday … | 2016/04/24 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-04-24 21:31:20 |
| Constitutional Corner – Secession | One headline reads: “Siskiyou County [California] supervisors vote to pursue seceding from state.” Another reads: … | 2016/04/22 | admin | Essay | 2016-04-22 20:43:29 |
| Constitutional Corner – Why Every American MUST Learn Their Constitution | Open as PDF There are multiple reasons why every American should know their Constitution, and … | 2016/04/20 | admin | Essay | 2016-04-20 17:09:29 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 16 Apr 2016 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause (to be continued until it is definitively settled). As … | 2016/04/17 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-04-17 20:42:49 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 9 Apr 2016 | Article 1, Section 2: Apportionment Clause. “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the … | 2016/04/10 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-04-10 19:11:52 |
| Constitutional Corner – Treaties, International and Shariah Law | Open as PDF Treaties. Article 6, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution says: “This Constitution, … | 2016/04/06 | admin | Essay | 2016-04-06 19:58:17 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 1 Apr 2016 | In a startling announcement yesterday at the White House, President Barack Obama indicated he would … | 2016/04/02 | admin | Uncategorized, Week in Review | 2016-04-02 16:43:43 |
| Constitutional Corner – Dismantling Leviathan | Open as PDF In the Bible, the word “Leviathan,” a transliteration of the Hebrew word, … | 2016/03/30 | admin | Uncategorized | 2016-03-30 20:49:30 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Duty of the Jury | Trial by jury, a cherished, “first right,” traces its roots reliably to the 1215 Magna … | 2016/03/25 | admin | Essay | 2016-03-25 20:58:55 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Imperial Presidency | Open as PDF “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State … | 2016/03/23 | admin | Essay | 2016-03-23 14:36:31 |
| Constitutional Corner – When Governments Take Your Taxes | Is there anything more American than a good tax protest? From the Boston “Tea Party” … | 2016/03/22 | admin | Essay | 2016-03-22 21:48:35 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 19 March 2016 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause (to be continued until it is definitively settled). Finally! … | 2016/03/18 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-03-18 21:34:42 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 12 March 2016 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause (to be continued until it is definitively settled). Another … | 2016/03/12 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-03-12 14:58:51 |
| Constitutional Corner – Restoring the Electoral College | Open as PDF The 2000 presidential election put the Electoral College squarely in the gunsights … | 2016/03/09 | admin | Essay | 2016-03-09 21:44:00 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 5 March 2016 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause (to be continued until it is definitively settled). Ted … | 2016/03/05 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-03-05 10:16:41 |
| Constitutional Corner – Replacing Scalia | Open as PDF March 11th would have been Antonin Scalia’s 80th birthday. When I read … | 2016/03/02 | admin | Essay | 2016-03-02 19:40:51 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 27 Feb 16 | Constitution – General. Here’s a recording of a webinar I presented on 22 February for … | 2016/02/27 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-02-27 21:39:15 |
| Constitutional Corner – America’s Fundamental Principles: Economic Freedom. | Open as PDF Our last entry in the fundamental principle “sweepstakes” is the principle of … | 2016/02/25 | admin | Essay | 2016-02-25 13:24:57 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 20 Feb 16 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause (continued, ad nauseam). Folks continue to come out of … | 2016/02/19 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-02-19 20:01:33 |
| Constitutional Corner – America’s Fundamental Principles: One Nation Under God | Constitutional Corner – America’s Fundamental Principles: One Nation Under God. Open as PDF “I pledge … | 2016/02/17 | admin | Essay | 2016-02-17 21:17:11 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 13 Feb 16 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause. The critics pile on. Now we have the claim … | 2016/02/12 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-02-12 21:44:20 |
| Constitutional Corner – Educating America | Open as PDF I’ve written often of the need to teach Americans about their Constitution and … | 2016/02/10 | admin | Essay | 2016-02-10 20:02:54 |
| The Constitution’s Week in Review – 5 Feb 16 | Article 2. Natural Born Citizen Clause. As I’ve said before, this one’s not going away … | 2016/02/05 | admin | Week in Review | 2016-02-05 21:03:50 |
| Constitutional Corner – America’s Fundamental Principles: Start the Conversation. | Open as PDF “Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, … | 2016/02/03 | admin | Essay | 2016-02-03 20:22:14 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Founders’ Worldview Continued | Constitutional Corner – The Founders’ Worldview Continued Last week I conjectured that if there appears … | 2015/05/14 | admin | Essay | 2015-05-14 11:24:55 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Founders’ Worldview | Last week’s essay dealt with corruption in politics and, despite the historic and continued presence … | 2015/05/07 | admin | Uncategorized | 2015-05-07 13:25:00 |
| Constitutional Corner – Is Nullification the Answer? | At the Valley Forge Constitution seminar on January 10th I made a new friend who … | 2015/04/30 | admin | Essay | 2015-04-30 22:46:55 |
| Constitutional Corner – They’re All Crooks? | There is nothing new about corruption in government; it is a problem as old as … | 2015/04/30 | admin | Essay | 2015-04-30 10:52:09 |
| Constitutional Corner – The Treaty Power | The treaty-making power detailed in the Constitution has been hotly debated for at least the … | 2015/04/23 | admin | Essay | 2015-04-23 17:54:10 |
| Constitution Corner – Pastors and Politics | In 1954, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson found himself being opposed for re-election by certain pastors … | 2015/01/29 | admin | Uncategorized | 2015-01-29 22:51:28 |
| Constitution Corner – Federalism and Nullification | Constitution Corner – Federalism and Nullification Any solitary word that people can write whole books … | 2015/01/17 | admin | Uncategorized | 2015-01-17 11:09:43 |
| Vol 1 No 34 – Restoring the Founders Dream | Last Saturday my wife and I attended a seminar in Mechanicsville, Virginia, entitled “Restoring the … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:32:04 |
| Vol 1 No 33 – What Are We Teaching Our Children | On March 4, 1825, the Board of Visitors of the newly opened University of Virginia … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:30:28 |
| Vol 1 No 32- The Lacey Act and Overcriminalization | In the news on September 27th was this bit: “Special agents from Immigration and Customs … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:29:44 |
| Vol 1 No 31 – Should SCOTUS Hearings by Televised | Want to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court, whose Fall Term begins next week … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:28:42 |
| Vol 1 No 30 – Secession | One headline reads: “Siskiyou County [California] supervisors vote to pursue seceding from state.” Another reads: … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:27:55 |
| Vol 1 No 29 – War Powers | By the time you read this we may have, in my opinion, unconstitutionally lobbed a … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:27:12 |
| Vol 1 No 28- Impeachment | In their new bestseller “Impeachable Offenses: The case for removing Barack Obama from office,” authors … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:26:27 |
| Vol 1 No 27 – Federalism and Nullification | Any solitary word that people can write whole books about, is obviously too complex to … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:25:47 |
| Vol 1 No 23 – Support and Defend | You’ve got to hand it to some of the hard-core politicians in Congress; they know … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:22:41 |
| Vol 1 No 22 – Faithfully Executing the Law | Today, most Americans think of the Executive Branch as having the greatest power of any … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:21:57 |
| Vol 1 No 21 – Are We Still Governable? | “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:20:56 |
| Vol 1 No 20 – After DOMA | No matter how you feel about Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s staunch originalism, his opinions are … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:20:00 |
| Vol 1 No 19 – Term Limits | At the moment, sixteen members of Congress have served more than 36 years each in … | 2013/10/23 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-10-23 22:18:55 |
| The Legacy of ’76 | The Legacy of ’76 by Gary Porter “The Second Day of July 1776, will be … | 2013/07/03 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-07-03 17:08:22 |
| Celebrating the Declaration of Independence | Celebrating the Declaration of Independence, by Brian Vanyo On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of … | 2013/07/03 | admin | Essay | 2013-07-03 16:43:25 |
| Vol 1, No 16 – Securing the Blessings of Liberty to Our Posterity | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Although they were sent to Philadelphia … | 2013/06/07 | admin | Essay | 2013-06-07 13:13:15 |
| Vol 1, No 15 – 336 Votes | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. 336 votes. That was the margin … | 2013/06/06 | admin | Essay | 2013-06-06 13:28:25 |
| Vol 1, No 14 – Are You A Federal Criminal | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. When Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will … | 2013/06/05 | admin | Essay | 2013-06-05 13:32:41 |
| Vol 1, No 13 – Tyranny | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Tryanny: “Arbitrary or despotic exercise of … | 2013/05/30 | admin | Essay | 2013-05-30 13:40:47 |
| Vol 1, No 10 – The Con-Con | A new Constitutional Convention. The “third rail” of Constitutional issuography these days (is that even … | 2013/05/29 | admin | Essay | 2013-05-29 13:42:52 |
| Vol 1, No 9 – The Sordid 17th Amendment | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Imagine it is July, 1794 – … | 2013/05/02 | admin | Essay | 2013-05-02 13:48:18 |
| Vol 1, No 8 – The Merry 16th Amendment | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 … | 2013/04/25 | admin | Essay | 2013-04-25 13:51:55 |
| Vol 1, No 7 – The Reconstruction Amendments | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. The Bill of Rights went into … | 2013/04/18 | admin | Essay | 2013-04-18 13:53:32 |
| Vol 1, No 6 – On Our Debt | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Seventeen-trillion and counting. By the end … | 2013/04/04 | admin | Essay | 2013-04-04 13:55:01 |
| Vol 1, No 5 – Gun Control – Part 3 | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. In the wake of the Sandy … | 2013/03/28 | admin | Essay | 2013-03-28 13:56:17 |
| Vol 1, No 4 – Gun Control – Part 2 | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. In stark contrast to the controversy … | 2013/03/21 | admin | Essay | 2013-03-21 13:57:36 |
| Vol 1, No 3 – Gun Control – Part 1 | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. As promised: Gun Control. We will … | 2013/03/14 | admin | Essay | 2013-03-14 13:58:47 |
| Vol 1, No 2 – Interpreting the Constitution | By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Welcome back to Constitutional Corner, a … | 2013/02/28 | admin | Essay | 2013-02-28 13:19:10 |
| Vol 1, No 1 – Welcome to Constitutional Corner | Open as PDF By Gary Porter, National Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc. Welcome to Constitutional … | 2013/02/14 | admin | Essay | 2013-02-14 13:59:58 |
| First CLI Post | “[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in … | 2013/01/25 | admin | Uncategorized | 2013-01-25 02:56:03 |
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