It is important to note that Thomas Jefferson’s paragraph condemning Great Britain’s imposition of the slave trade on the Colonies in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence was deleted by South Carolina and Georgia delegates to the Continental Congress prior to the signing.

We all agree that children should be separated from criminal families. That is why no children live with their parents in jail or prison. That would be child abuse, right?

With more constitutional decisions coming from the Supreme Court, constitutional adversaries might get on board and demand more constitutional, limited government.

The Framers would not have considered capital punishment cruel and unusual based on the subsequent Fifth Amendment that states a person’s life may be deprived them if due process finds them guilty of a capital crime.

Despite the United Nations, Palestinian sympathizers, or objections from the state of Palestine, the move of the American Embassy in Israel is constitutional, and, therefore, lawful.

Americans need the Truth.  But former law professor Rob Natelson’s recent article in The Hill is filled with ad hominems and misstatements. 

Is our Constitution worth preserving? Guard it as you would guard the seat of your life, guard it not only against the open blows of violence, but also against that spirit of change…Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years, cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once destroyed, would have a void to be filled, perhaps for centuries, with evolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

I suggest that if people are going to the Constitution to defend the strikes in Syria or anywhere else, they should read the entire context and not drop relevant, important phrases that the founders placed in the document that would restrict such actions.

In a true federalism – which is what our founders established – there is no final arbiter of constitutional questions; there is no oligarchy to which all other branches of government must bow and which tramples representative government. That is the beauty of checks and balances. That is the beauty of federalism.

“No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation;  grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin money;  emit Bills of Credit;  make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts;  pass any Bill of Attainder;  ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.”