Constitution

This is to comment on the article, " Head in the sand over prosecutorial misconduct ", by Erwin Chemerinsky, in The National Law J...

"Natural born" means born on the soil of the nation, regardless of the citizenship of the parents, unless one of them is a for...

The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Re...

Waco: The Massacre at Mount Carmel These are the complete movies that shocked a nation and spawned the modern constitutional militia movem...

Anything, including debt certificates, may be used as currency if it is accepted as such by most players in the market. The key to that acce...

Two questions were asked in a forum on the history of law by Daniel R. Mandell: First, would the Supreme Court need the approval of the Pre...

The following was sent to the  U.S. agent for holding the silver seized from the Liberty Dollar organization: I hereby certify that I am t...

The main role of militia, as of firearms, is deterrence . It works best when it never has to be used. But its effectiveness as a deterrent d...

It is a long-established doctrine of law that officials should not be subject to civil or criminal prosecution for acting within their juris...

The question has been raised whether 18 USC 111 is authorized by the Necessary and Proper Clause. In the words of one correspondent, Prote...

"You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent." — David Bossie

We should try to make some of these broad concepts more precise. There are two main rights associated with liberty : 1. The right to a pr...

The law of nations actually defines what is "war" with enough precision to cover the present events in Libya. An act of war makes ...

The following is a message from Bernard von NotHaus, recently convicted of the private minting of bullion coins made of pure silver, which d...

The arguments made against Bernard von NotHaus and the "liberty dollar" coinage are incorrect, for several reasons. The U.S. con...

The bill by Texas Reps. Simpson, Eddie Rodriguez, Menendez, Kolkhorst, and Chisum, HB 1937, http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/Histor...

There is a widespread and growing perception that our agents, mainly organized into large public and private institutions, have gotten out o...

The Court may have gotten the decision correct in this case, but not the opinion, and that was because it was not argued as well as it shoul...

YouTube - So why do we face economic collapse?

Sen. Jim Demint and others have introduced S. Joint Res. 38 ,  The Balanced Budget Amendment. Although this would seem to be a good idea on ...

Two bills, HB 1705 by Rep. Matthew Hill , and SB 1474 by Senator Stacy Campfield , were recently introduced. Although they have much meri...

In the most general sense, " common law " is just the body of court precedents , which changes with each new precedent. The term o...

There is a fundamental flaw in the U.S. v. Comstock opinion. While Congress arguably has authority to conduct competency hearings and detai...