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economic collapse

Going to the Roots of the Problem

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a certain nation was one of the richest countries in the world. had left...
Secession

A Dissenting Opinion on “Secession”

The Internet is awash with articles in the patriotic ether that promote “secession” of one or more States from the United States as advisable,...
Military Crackdown

Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr. on the Failure of the Public Sector, the Coming Military...

The following interview first appeared in The Daily Bell January 10, 2010. Daily Bell: Thanks for sitting down with us. Let's get right to it. In...
Tea Party

Tea Parties Need Teeth

The Tenth-Amendment Resolutions from State Legislatures, the Tea Parties, the Town Hall Meetings, and other manifestations of WE THE PEOPLE’S fedupidness with monkey-business as...
alternative currency

Smashing the Axis of Financial Fraud

The more things change, the more they remain the same. In 1814, in an address to the House of Representatives, Daniel Webster observed that public...
popular sovereignty

A Failing Grade

Everyone is familiar with the report cards students in elementary and secondary schools receive to record their academic performances. If these are important indicia...
Martial Law

A Primer on “Martial Law”

It is difficult these days not to come upon some pessimistic patriotic commentator expressing the fear that something called “martial law” may soon be...
Gold Clause Contracts

“GOLD CLAUSES” AND “SILVER CLAUSES” IN FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS

A Caveat to Readers “Gold Clauses” and “Silver Clauses” in Financial Transactions: A Practical Study Concerning Their Origin and Use is designed to provide information,...
Restore the Constitution

If Not Now, When?

"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York!” says the cunning Richard, Duke of Gloucester, of his...
Lexington and Concord

Lexington Green, April 19, 2009

What follows is an address, delivered in my absence by Tom Moor, at the Committees of Safety rally held at Lexington Green on 19...
"well regulated Militia" 2nd Amendment

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Judicial Supremacy

“Judicial Supremacy” Through “Judicial Review”

"Judicial Supremacy": Nowhere to be found in the Constitution or Pre-constitutional HistoryPre-constitutional history provides no support for the sweeping contemporary claim that “the federal...
Official Immunity

“Official Immunity”

"Official Immunity"The Constitution itself provides for one and only one “official immunity”, in its allowance that, “for any Speech or Debate in either House...
living document

“Living” Constitution

As a constitutional rule of construction that cannot be repeated to often, “If *** we are at liberty to give old words new meanings ***...
Tyranny: John Locke

“Usurpation” and “Tyranny”

"Usurpation"“Usurpation” – the exercise of some otherwise legitimate governmental power as to which the particular actor actor enjoys no legal claim.Source: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government,...
special interest groups

“Factions” or “Special Interest” Groups

"Factions" or "Special Interest" GroupsAmerica’s Founding Fathers denounced “factions” (what we refer to today as “special interests”) because these groups consist of “a number of citizens,...