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 [...]
Congress and the Three-Fifths Clause of our Constitution There was quite a bit of press back in January, 2016, when our Constitution was read in the U.S. House of Representatives, with passages omitted. Especially passages concerning slavery, and most specifically the passage which has been referred to as the “three-fifths clause,” which counted slaves as [...]
Correct Abuses of Constitutional Power Surveys show the majority of Americans have not read or understood the Constitution, yet it is only about 7,000 words, or less than 25 pages. A big reason for this is it was written in what is now 200-plus-year-old language, with lots of difficult legal words. Yet, the Constitution is [...]
Weapons of Mass Instruction (In Honor of Independence Day) by David Brier http://www.risingabovethenoise.com/weapons-of-mass-instruction-in-honor-of-independence-day/
