Constitution

The recent rule laid out by the FDA for the labeling of cigarette packs with scary images of injury caused by smoking on the upper half of e...

The Supreme Court rendered a decision June 20, 2011, in Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri This is probably the most significant case i...

The unanimous opinion in Bond v. United States handed down by the United States Supreme Court June 16, 2011, may open federal courts to ind...

This is a response to Saul Cornell, " Why the Right-Wing's Approach to Reading the Constitution Is Destroying This Country " ...

For those who have deluded themselves into thinking their payments into Social Security have earned them benefits, there is the Supreme ...

I testified against HB 1937 before the Committee for reasons discussed here .  It is a poorly conceived effort to solve this and other probl...

Social Security is not and never was any kind of insurance program. Your payments into it are not and never were premium payments for a re...

Kansas SOS Kris Kobach has written this oped for the WSJ . But his reasoning is flawed. Here are my comments: There is a cri...

CBS News had a segment, Who are "sovereign citizens"? My comment follows: Each side in this dispute is making its own mistakes ...

Andrew Napolitano wrong about letters of marque and reprisal (LMR) On Fox Business News this evening former judge Andrew Napolitano stated...

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...