Pledge of Allegiance – Explained The below link gives a video of Red Skelton delivering and explaining the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. This is from The Red Skelton Show on CBS January 14, 1969. Red tells us that one of his teachers in school explained the Pledge of Allegiance this way so the [...]
The Powers of the President In the past couple of hundred years, the power exercised by the President has been in the news and has been controversial. For example in March of 2010, President Obama signed a presidential executive order a few hours before the health care bill was voted on in the House of [...]
End the Fed? In his book, End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Federal Reserve system, not money, is the root of all evil. He argues that the Fed causes all sorts of trouble, from wars to depressions to economic bubbles. This is in line with what Thomas Jefferson said about paper money leading [...]
Importance of Supreme Court Justices What’s at stake with a new Supreme Court Justice? What does it mean? What is going to happen? How does any of this affect me? To answer the question of what’s at stake, let’s take a long-ago historical example of how a changed Supreme Court changed the lives of all [...]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary In discussing the Declaration of Independence and Constitution with my publisher after considerable study of both documents, we both thought “Maybe we’re missing something. Maybe we’re not really getting the original intent of our Founding Fathers.” My publisher suggested looking in Webster’s 1828 dictionary to see what we could find. The current [...]
What happened to the Tenth Amendment? The Tenth Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment is the one that says the powers not given to the U.S. federal government by [...]
Did “separation of church and state” originate with the Constitution? The phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear in the Constitution. It traces back to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptists on January 1, 1802, in which he reassured the Baptists that their religious freedom would be protected. [...]
Take Our Constitution Quiz I’ve added a new Constitution Quiz page – please try it out and have fun! Click on the tab above entitled “Quiz” – and let me know what you think.
Happy New Year for our Constitution in 2011! It’s now a new year and I’m filled with high expectations for our country and its regard for our Constitution. Indeed, I feel a classic Hollywood ending is coming our way. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Founder and Chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus, introduced a bill on [...]
We Have News for The Washington Post In 2016, Washington Post staff writer Ezra Klein stated the Constitution was confusing because it was written over 100 years ago. First, the Constitution was written in 1787 and ratified in 1788, which is well over 200 years ago. Second, and much more important, the Constitution can be [...]
