“Alarm List”
"Alarms" During “alarms”, Rhode Island required all able-bodied free men from sixteen to sixty years of age to muster in defense of their Towns...
Militia: Immune From Contemporary “Gun Control”
Constitutional Militia: Immune From All Contemporary Forms of “Gun Control”Unlike some other powers and disabilities of Congress and the States, their powers and disabilities...
Militia to Supervise Honest Elections
Constitutional Militia to Supervise Honest ElectionsFor the Militia “to execute the Laws”, there must be “Laws” that sometimes may require the Militia’s “execut”—and therefore...
Militia: Repel the Invasion of Illegal Immigration
Militia: Repel the Invasion of Illegal ImmigrationOnly the Militia could supply para-military and police forces of sufficient size to take control of America’s borders...
Militia Officer Selection
Militia Officer Selection Evidencing the fundamentally democratic character of an institution in which every able-bodied adult free male participated, common people, too, often enjoyed...
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“Aggregate Powers”
“Aggregate Powers”: Powers Cobbled Together and Exercised by Rogue Government Officials That are Not Enumerated in the ConstitutionTypically, when aspiring usurpers and tyrants cannot rationalize...
“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...
“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,...
“The War on Terror”
"The War on Terror" Rogue officials stir up the "fear" of "terrorism". With "terrorism" as their excuse they arrogate new "war powers" to themselves....
“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 ***...