AMENDMENT XIV Part 1
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment echoes that of the Fifth Amendment. The FifthAmendment, however, applies only against the federal government, but after the Civil War, Congressadopted several measures to protect individual rights from interference by the states. Among them wasthe Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the states from...
AMENDMENT XIII Part I
Section 1.Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall havebeen duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.Section 2.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified...
Gerrymandering-Part I
For 213 years, Americans have complained about partisan gerrymandering – ‘it is unfair’. Like it or not, it is how the process functions, and despite all of the concerns or questions raised, Americans have something many other people around the world envy: a remarkably stable system of governance in...
The True Betrayal: A Nation’s Voice Versus the Elite’s Control
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN host Michael Smerconish Saturday that social media companies must moderate content on their platforms or else “we lose total control.” Who is “we”, Mrs. Clinton?! The immoral, corrupt, and arrogant, elite?! Clinton wants to see more done by the federal government...
The Americans
“The closer politicians and bureaucrats are to the People, the less corruption there will be. This is the true meaning of a democratic republic.” – DBH Many of the so-called Tolerant, Inclusive, Genuine, and Equitable people on the Left are nothing more than tribal in their beliefs, fools fixed in...
The Disposition of Power III
Richard Bland wrote in 1766, “Right and power have very different meanings, and convey very differentideas. Power abstracted from right cannot give just a title to dominion, nor is it possible legitimately, oreven logically, to build right upon power.” When the two are intermingled, when brutal power becomesan irresistible...
The Disposition of Power II
During the pre-Revolutionary period, the theory of politics that emerged leaned on the principle what laid at the rear of each political act, the definitive reason of political debate was none other than the disposition of power. The keenness of the perceptions colonists had with the challenge was they...
The Disposition of Power I
There was a time, not so long ago, when knowledge of classical authors was common among the people,both young and old regardless of the level of formal education, of the United States. From elementaryschool, through to college, even private tutors or independent readers, Americans became familiar withnumerous ancient authors...
Rights Natural or Manmade? Section II. Part III
The Origin of Rights (Human); a Roman Perspective; Cicero had a substantial impact, both direct and indirect, on key post-Renaissance thinkers likeJohn Locke, David Hume, and Jean Jacques Montesquieu, and through these writers, his thoughts andvery phrases touched America’s founding generations. Even Thomas Jefferson explicitly honored Ciceroas one of...
Rights Natural or Manmade?
Part IV The Origin of Rights (Human); a Christian Perspective.When did they first appear?From where did they derive?The Rights of Man began with the origin of man – at the moment of creation as illustrated in the book of Genesis.Genesis is a Greek word meaning “origin,” source,” “generation”, or...