While we’ve published a great deal about what the Founders approved at the Convention of 1787, it’s just as important to understand what was proposed but did NOT get approved.
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“To assume that government gives you rights takes you down a very dangerous path. After all, whatever government gives, government can take away.”
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When Congress makes a law beyond the Constitution, we should disregard it, and “punish them for the attempt.”
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The victory against the Stamp Act represents one of the greatest practical applications of nullification in American history.
DetailsA lot of the history you learned in school is just flat-out wrong. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I take apart one bad historian on nullification and explain why you need to rethink all of the history you think you know.
DetailsWe usually think of the American Revolution as the war with the British. But there was an even more fundamental revolution that began long before the first shot was fired – a revolution in political thought. I talk about it in this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head.
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Is the NSA Constitutional? Learn how it was created in total secrecy – and decide for yourself.
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On Feb. 19, 1942, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed EO9066, setting into motion the roundup and detention of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans, along with German and Italian-Americans. These people spent the duration of WWII staring through barbed wire fences.
Never tell me “It can’t happen here.”
What is the federal government constitutionally authorized to do? The short answer, according to James Madison, not a whole lot.
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When people tell you that mass warrantless surveillance by the NSA – or any other agency – is constitutional, they’re either ignorant or lying.
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The Constitution. Every issue, every time. No exceptions, no excuses.
