Constitution

Let’s try to put some numbers on what it will take to achieve any of our reform goals. The typical congressional district cont...

Taking over the offices in one or both of the two main parties has often been suggested as the way to get the right kinds of candidates, bu...

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidat...

What doesn't work is for citizens to demand change from others without writing the language in which that change will be implemented. If...

We have just uploaded a searchable PDF file of Military Affairs , Vol. 1, a collection of reports to the U.S. Congress from March 3, 1789, t...

At our next meetup Thursday Mar. 19 we will be discussing how to promote constitutional compliance. This is a selling job, and it has been ...

The essence of the issue was well stated by Ali A. Mohamed, Al Qaeda spy now in U.S. custody (from an interview on National Geographic Chann...

The following are comments on the Feb. 6, 2009, Bill Moyers interview of Jay Rosen and Glenn Greenwald : ______ Humans are herd animals. T...

It is sometimes said that the essence of republican government is representation , but that is not correct. Its essence is deliberation . Re...

Much has been written criticizing the NRA for becoming captured by the "Beltway mentality" surrounding the U.S. Capitol, and I te...

It should now be clear the mortgage-backed security (MBS) model is fundamentally infirm, and only undoing it will suffice, but that will be...

In the Vice-Presidential Debate October 2, Sen. Joseph Biden continued a pattern I have observed over the years he has been in public offic...

It is encouraging to see contenders introducing the issue of constitutional compliance into the campaign. However, none of them appear to ye...

I predict history will conclude the Election of 2008 was decided when Obama unwisely chose Biden as his running mate and McCain brilliantl...

Columnist Robert Novak was one of the two keynote speakers, along with former U.S. Rep. Barry Goldwater, Jr., at the evening dinner of the A...

Rather than searching for evidence of courts taking an individual rights view, it might make more sense to seek evidence from near the Found...

DC v. Heller is an important win for the right to keep and bear arms. It's holdings are narrow: that two provisions of the DC statute...

The oral argument yesterday in DC v. Heller , the Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court, involved what I regard, and have rega...

As a veteran of many election campaigns and movements, going back to 1960, and as having spoken to a lot of voters in this campaign season, ...

The concept of the social contract (or compact, as some prefer), developed by such political philosophers as John Locke and Jean-Jacques R...