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What Are The Basic Concepts of US Government?

Think NOT that you must have a law degree to understand the Constitution of the United States; or that the lawyers, law professors and black robed judges are the ones who understand it best. They are the ones…

What Are The Enumerated Powers Of The Federal Courts?

1. “Judicial Power” refers to a court’s power to hear and decide cases. Art. III §2, U.S. Constitution, lists the cases which federal courts are permitted to hear. They may hear only cases: a) Arising under the Constitution,…

The Balance of Powers Act – People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge

Our own Ignorance is destroying us. Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography: “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined…

Does the “General Welfare Clause” Of The U.S. Constitution Authorize Congress To Force Us To Buy Health Insurance?

CNSNews.com posted an article in October of 2009, “Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance”.  In the article, Steny Hoyer (Democrat House Majority Leader) said Congress has “broad authority” to…

Term Limits: Treating The Symptom – Not The Disease

1. We already have term limits for U.S. Representatives & Senators – just vote them out of office.  But we keep re-electing the same people!  So, the people in the term limits movement seek to impose term limits…

What Should States Do When the Federal Government Usurps Power? Advice From James Madison, Father Of The US Constitution

1. What can a State – or several States – do to resist encroachments & usurpations by the federal government? 2.  Federalist No. 46  (7th para) discusses how individual States or several States carry out resistance to the…

National Popular Vote: Goodbye, Sweet America

Our Constitution is under constant attack.1   One of the most pernicious attacks is being waged by those who seek to override the constitutional provisions under which The States, as political entities, elect the President; and to replace it…

Immigration Invasion – The Remedy When The Federal Government Refuses To Do Its Duty

Article IV, §4, U.S. Constitution, requires The United States to protect each of the States against Invasion. It says: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect…

Declaration Of Independence: Do Our Rights Come from God, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, or Congress?

The future of our Posterity depends on a proper understanding of the Source of our Rights.  I will explain four views; show you which one is true, and why the other three are false and lead inexorably to the…

Parental Rights Amendment: Congressmen Are Selling You and Your Kids Out to Big Government

If politicians introduced a bill mandating the slaughter of all human babies under the age of two years; but called it, “The Little Babies Protection Act,” establishment conservatives and unthinking people all over the Country would be clamoring…

Parental Rights: God-given and Unalienable? Or Government-granted and Revocable?

Editor’s Note: Before you get into Publius Huldah’s response, there is a bit of information that is necessary for readers to know. As you recall, Publius Huldah posted an article on the issue of the Parental Rights Amendment…

Impeachment: All you need to know (and you do need to know it)

1. It is NOT necessary that the President, other officers in the executive branch, or federal judges commit a crime before they may be impeached & removed from office. Federalist Paper No. 66 (2nd para) & Federalist No.…

What Criminal Laws are Congress Authorized to Make?

1. The Constitution grants to Congress only limited powers to make criminal laws. These powers fall into five categories: a) those made pursuant to express authorizations for four specific crimes; b) those made under the “necessary and proper” clause; c) those made…

The Development of Article V, U.S. Constitution, at the Federal Convention of 1787

Page numbers refer to the hard bound ed. of the Journal of the Federal Convention Kept by James Madison (ed. by E.H. Scott; R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., Chicago, 1893).  Hyperlinks to an online edition are also…

The “Convention of States” Scam, the War over the Constitution, and how the States Sold the Reserved Powers to the Feds

[two_third]Our Constitution is a glorious document. This one page chart depicts the Structure of the federal government we created when we ratified our Constitution; and lists the “limited & enumerated powers” we delegated to the federal government over…

The “Constitution Free Zone” is unconstitutional!

A “constitution free zone” is totally unconstitutional. What with Barack Obama’s “constitution free zone” and the Barnett/Levin/Natelson/Farris/Barton gang calling for an Article V convention to gut our Constitution or replace it altogether, our Constitution is under deadly attack.…

Article V Propaganda And The Conspiracy Against Our Constitution

The “Convention of States” (COS) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page contains 989 words – none of them true – except for these which appear in the first paragraph: “The federal government is spending this country into the ground…