A Democracy or a Republic?
You hear it on the television, the radio, you read it in newspapers, magazines or on the internet. “America is a democracy,” “Our democracy,” “Our democratic form of government,” and so on. Democracy ? The United States is NOT a democracy, it is a...
Founding Principles: Only Congress Can Make Law
The very first sentence in the Constitution after the Preamble unambiguously tells us only Congress has the power to make laws. Not the president. Not the courts. The founding fathers wrote with a purpose; the placement of a sentence, of a word, all had importance to...
First Principles: Enumerated Powers
What does it mean to be a Constitution of enumerated powers? First, we need to understand the definition of the word. More importantly, we need to look it up in a dictionary from the founding era so we get the same meaning as that generation understood the word. Try...