Month: April 2020
163 – A Government is Made up of People
I’m guilty of it as well. Talking about governments, federal, state, and local, as if they were some sort of foreign entity. But we should always remember that governments are something special. They are organizations, and they are made up of people.
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162 – Rhode Island and the Right to Try Act
Do you own your own body? It seems a simple enough question. But in today’s society not only do you not own your body, but others claim the right to tell you what you can and cannot do with it. They believe that they have the authority to tell you when a medical treatment is to dangerous… even if you’re dying. And the state of Rhode Island wants to take a step toward fixing that.
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161 – Ponder Asking for Your Rights
I heard a podcaster talking about the difference between regulating rights and infringing on rights. Well the sad truth is, the power to regulate is the power to infringe. We’ll ponder this next, on The Constitution Study.
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160 – Stay at Home or Not Stay At Home? That is the Question.
What makes North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Arkansas different than the rest of the states in the union? The answer is whether or not to issue “Stay at home” orders.
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159 – Pondering Usurpations
Recent events have shown the lengths politicians, both state and federal, will go to usurp your rights. We’ll ponder that next, on The Constitution Study.
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158 – Showing the Feds Who’s Boss
In the latest examples of state nullification, the legislatures of several states are considering bills to keep the federal government within its enumerated powers.
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157 – Pondering Self Government
Watching this country’s reaction to the COVID-19 virus, especially those of the American people got me thinking, got me thinking about our experiment in self government. So I thought I’d ponder that next, on The Constitution Study.
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156 – H.R.5717 – Conspiracy to Commit Theft and Fraud
We cherish freedom of speech in this country. We even protect the ability of those in Congress to speak freely, even exempting them from arrest or questioning about what they say in either the House or Senate. But what Rep. Henry Johnson Jr. (D-GA-4) and his 18 cosponsors have proposed in H.R. 5717 is not only a violation of the law, but a violation of the very purpose of the federal government as stated in the U.S. Constitution.
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