Montana lawmaker seeks to create state militia
In a move that will hopefully be copied nationwide over the next few years, Montana lawmakers are considering forming and training an armed volunteer force of “home guards” certified by the governor and not subject to federal oversight. These home guards would be under the direct authority of the county sherriffs and the governor during any state emergency. [...]
Supreme Muddled Thinking: Justice Breyer gets the 2nd Amendment Wrong
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer demonstrated some typically muddled progressive reasoning on Fox News Sunday, contending the founders would have supported modern gun control laws and sided with the dissenters in the 2008 case D.C. v. Heller. In a nutshell, Breyer says the framers (James Madison in particular) put the Second Amendment in the [...]
Thank a Veteran Today by Introducing Them to Oath Keepers!
Oath Keepers simply recognize that there are certain orders we would NOT obey because we will consider them unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral violations of the natural rights of the people. Such orders would be acts of war against the American people by their own government, and thus acts of treason. We will not make war against our own people. We will not commit treason. We will defend the Republic.
Where Living Constitutionalism Will Take Us
The funny thing about the left is that they say they hate religion and believe they are anything but religious. They seem damn proud of the fact that they are not and look down on all Christians but if you study the progressive idea of a living constitution you will see that progressives are very [...]
How should we interpret the Constitution?
How should we interpret the Constitution? written by Michael Maharrey of the Kentucky Tenth Amendment Center was featured recently on the Tenth Amendment Center’s main site. The audio version is also available through the Arizona Tenth Amendment Center Podcast. Give it a listen and also consider subscribing using iTunes to the podcast as well! It’s [...]
Are “Anchor Babies” Constitutional?
The concept of “anchor babies” refers to those whose parents are illegal immigrants into the United States and have a baby on this soil. That baby then inherits full citizenship and even the right later, as an adult, to sponsor his/her own illegal parents in their quest for citizenship. Is this practice Constitutional? For the [...]
What’s to Celebrate?
I did not celebrate Constitution Day September 17, primarily because I did not know how to do so. The Federal Government requires the college where I work to do something on that day to qualify for it’s Title IV grant for which, if people really read the document, they would find no authority. I was [...]
Constitution Day – Live Broadcast
I’m excited to be part of a great broadcast happening in just minutes and running through the evening tonight. Radio host Mike Church is holding a special Constitution Day event featuring his new film, interviews with Jack Hunter, Kevin Gutzman, myself and others (p.s. I’ll be on at 6:30pm Pacific Time) Here’s the PR from [...]
Constitution Day is Sept 17. Here’s How You can Participate
September 17 is Constitution Day–the day the Constitution was signed in Philadelphia and sent to the states for ratification. This day SHOULD be a national holiday, but as we have seen in all to many cases, the slow eroding of accurate, proper, and true American history continues and eats away at the links to our [...]
The 17th Amendment, Again?
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, in 1787, James Madison wrote, “The Senate will represent the Staes in their political capacity, the other House will represent the people of the States in their individual capacity”. This is why the Congress in 1913 should have kept their hands off the Constitution. Not only did they give [...]
Restore The Constitution
Dr. Dan Eichenbaum delivered this speech detailing the need for states to assert the 10th Amendment and for individuals to educate their children about the constitution at the Restore The Constitution Rally, Greensboro, NC on August 14, 2010
Living? Breathing?
Words mean things. And context illuminates meaning. Context not only includes other words within a given work, but also past and future writings of the authors, and the social and philosophical framework within which the work was produced. The articles and sections of the Constitution mean things. And context illuminates meaning. Progressives view the Constitution [...]
What Ever Happened to the Constitution?
Presented by Judge Andrew Napolitano at the 2010 Mises University. Includes an introduction by Mises Institute founder and chairman, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Recorded 29 July 2010 in Auburn, Alabama.
Courts aren’t the final arbiter
Opponents of state sovereignty and the states’ power to nullify unconstitutional law argue that federal courts have held nullification unconstitutional. Jillian Rayfield, in a brilliantly unbiased article *insert sarcastic tone* on TMPDC.com writes: This “tenther” group touts state sovereignty and nullification — the idea that a state can override a federal law it deems unconstitutional (a [...]
Reserved to the States, or to the People
State Sovereignty Rally at Albany, New York Capitol Building August 7, 2010. Rick Montes (New York Tenth Amendment Center) speech on the Tenth Amendment It’s nice to show up at rallies and wave our don’t tread on me flags, and support the tea parties, and scream that Obama is destroying our Constitution – but how [...]
The Spirit and Intent of our Constitution
“The adoption of the Constitution will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.” ~ George Washington Adherence to the spirit and intent of our Constitution was so important to our Founding Fathers that one of the first acts of the First [...]
Gay Marriage and Immigration
I have many problems with the US constitution, but it is the legal regime we are told we live under. Marriage, to take one example, is mentioned nowhere in the constitution, and therefore is no business of the federal congress, the federal courts, nor any other arm of the DC leviathan. The feds, according to [...]
The Power to Create is not the Power to Enforce
The commerce clause is being used to by the federal government to regulate the economic aspect of our lives. It claims it has the right to establish laws that regulate how businesses conduct themselves. This is not correct because the commerce clause was always meant to break down trade barriers that states may attempt to [...]
Contempt for Constitutional Limitations on the Federal Government
The following is from Tom Woods fabulous book: Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. “The controversy over health care reflects a much broader and deeper constitutional void in American life. Some fifteen years ago, a Supreme Court Justice asked the United States Solicitor General ( the government’s lawyer for Supreme Court [...]
Why the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Is Unconstitutional
Kenneth Blackwell and Kenneth Klukowski in the WSJ. Here’s an excerpt: The Justice Department announced last week that it would defend the new federal health-insurance mandate as an exercise of Congress’s “power to lay and collect taxes,” even though Barack Obama had insisted before the bill’s passage that it was “absolutely not a tax increase.” [...]
Words Mean Things…
The process of writing our constitution was painstakingly debated because words mean things. When you choose words it is important they reflect the meaning you intend so it is no wonder there is a concerted effort underfoot to change the meaning of words and history by the enemies of our constitution, and it is happening [...]
Is Obama Care Illegal?
Well, of course it is…but Dom Armentano makes an interesting case that under status quo, it’s not – but yet – still horribly immoral and wrong. Here’s an excerpt: To find the mandates in Obama Care illegal and, indeed, to roll back the bulk of economic regulation on business, would require a radical rethinking of [...]
Everything Has Its Place
You know, everything has its place. They set up the giant Christmas tree in my city’s downtown this weekend. That wasn’t the first premature dose of holiday spirit I’ve endured over the last couple of weeks. Last Thursday, one of our local radio stations began its 24/7 rotation of Christmas music. A nearby mall hung [...]
Nov 16, 2010 | Categories:Commentary, Constitution | 5 Comments »