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...
The Physics of Moral Legislation: The Limited Basis for Making Laws
One of my readers suggested I treat the ‘relativity theory of truth’ that many generation Y people have adopted. This morality “theory” is often expressed this way, “What works for me is true for me and what works for you is true for...
New Article Shows How 18th Century Law Helps Us Understand the Constitution
“Living Constitutionalists” and other opponents of constitutional government sometimes claim recovering the Constitution’s original meaning is impossible or impractical. One reason some of them think that is they they fail to take advantage of the hundreds of books...