Word "actual" in the Constitution

The Word “Actual” in the Constitution

The Word "Actual" in the ConstitutionAs a matter of law, the adjective “actual” was not written into the Constitution in modification of “Service” in...
Delegated Powers

Delegated Powers are Limited Powers of Government

Delegated powers are, in the nature of things, limited powers. For instance, a grant of “all legislative power” or “all judicial power” is limited...
General Welfare Clause

The General Welfare

The General Welfare with Constitutional Attorney Edwin Vieira Part 1 of 2 (above)The National Heritage Center Presents "The General Welfare" by Constitutional Attorney Edwin...
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Rights and the United States Constitution: The Declension from Natural law to Legal Positivism

Georgia Law Review Vol. 13:1447     Other participants in this Symposium have dealt with the issue: of defining rights, describing their source, and delimiting...

The Constitutional Chaos of Industrial Policy

Cato Journal, Vol.4, No. 2 (Fall 1984)Introduction      As its contemporary advocates employ the term, “industrial policy” imports a peculiar form of governmental intervention...
"well regulated Militia" 2nd Amendment

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Federal Reserve System: Cartel Structure

The Federal Reserve SystemThe Federal Reserve System is a cartel that controls the United States money supply and redistributes wealth with the blessings of...
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“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...
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“Emergency Powers”

"Emergency Powers"The real "emergency" that confronts Americans is the lust of aspiring and conspiring usurpers and tyrants for power WE THE PEOPLE have withheld...
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“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,...
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“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 ***...