We 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 Spirit of ’76 is a historically-based, educational movie geared toward helping today’s home schoolers, public school students and adults better understand the importance of the Constitution, and why and how it is so easily subverted by politicians past and present.
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Written by the great American poet, Walt Whitman, TO THE STATES urged people, cities and states to RESIST.
We call that nullification – something northern abolitionists did to great success in the 1850s.
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By James P. Allen
What role does the Declaration have in constitutional interpretation, if any?
When it comes to understanding the meaning of the Constitution, many Americans don’t give the Declaration of Independence the first thought. But some argue that as the founding American document, everything hangs on it, and we must interpret the Constitution exclusively through the Declaration. They view the Constitution and the government it created as a mechanism through which we realize principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
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The victors of war write its history in order to cast themselves in the most favorable light. That explains the considerable historical ignorance about our war of 1861 and panic over the Confederate flag. To create better understanding, we have to start a bit before the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
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The Constitution. Every issue, every time. No exceptions, no excuses.
