Category — Bill of Rights

The only way to repair our Constitution is with justices that have a deep-seated loyalty to the founding principles. The founders may have underestimated the capacity for judicial activism by a highly politicized court.   Read the rest of this entry »

James takes a look at what the newly media-proclaimed "expert" (Richard Stengel) on the Constitution has to say in the most recent edition of Time magazine. (Note, Stengel's no expert, his article is rife with errors and his ideology leaks through all over it.)   Read the rest of this entry »

Individual rights were not a significant issue during the Constitutional Convention, but a Bill of Rights certainly became a major issue during ratification. Those who fought for a Bill of Rights weren’t looking for a government guarantee of an itemized list of rights. Even the anti-Federalists believed that rights came from God, not the government. These Constitutional dissenters were demanding that government be restricted from interfering with their rights. In other words, they wanted it made crystal clear where the government dare not tread.   Read the rest of this entry »

If "men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force." This is the choice we have before us and what we might profit from contemplating on this 4th of July.   Read the rest of this entry »