Author: Paul Engel
Like many of you, I am a product of the public schools. Like many of you I thought the Constitution was for lawyers and judges. One day I read the Constitution, and was surprised to find I didn't need a law degree to understand it. Then I read the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers and even the Anti-Federalist Papers. As I learned more and more about our founding fathers and documents I saw how little we know about how our country was designed to work and how many people just didn't care. I started The Constitution Study to help those who also want read and study our Constitution.
Executive Orders – Limits and Constitutional Questions! – Oct. 9th, 2023
This week, we delve into the critical realm of Executive Orders with our esteemed guest, Paul Engal from ConstitutionStudy.com.
389 – Is Your State Committing Fraud in Presidential Elections?
I was having a discussion with someone online about how we elect the President and Vice President of the United States. I was doing some research to reinforce my point when I discovered something interesting, a state which had a fraudulent ballot in 2020. Thinking this was probably an individual mistake, I started looking at the sample ballots from each state in the 2020 election. I found mistakes in not just one state, or a handful of states, but in two-thirds of the state’s ballots. Which leads me to believe these may not be mistakes at all, but fraud committed by the states in regards to electing the President and Vice President of the United States.
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388 – Executive Orders or Edicts?
President Obama famously said:
“We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation,… I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone…and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions.”
President Obama on CBS News
This is a perfect example of executive overreach should go down in history as the abuse of a President’s executive power to usurp the powers of other branches
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387 – Honoring Constitution Day
Yesterday, September 17, 2023 was the 236th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. Did you, your family, or your neighbors honor that day? Have you considered what parts of your life you enjoy because of that documents and the 27 amendments that have been made to it? Have you considered what your life, and that of your family, would be like should that document continue its fall into obscurity? To paraphrase William Shakespeare, “It was a constitution, take it for all in all, I shall not look upon its like again.”
Today, I want to take sometime to consider not only what life would be like with a neutered and disabled Constitution, but what we are willing to do in order to keep it, and the protection of our rights it affords, alive and well in America. In our national anthem, we proclaim that the United Staters of America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. If we let the Constitution fall, then we will no longer be the land of the free, because We the People have not been brave.
20230914 – Liberty Lighthouse
Two hours of common sense and constitutional disscussion with: – your phone calls – guest Paul Engel of ConstitutiionStudy.com – and Scott Thompson of Right To Bear insurance (use code LIGHTHOUSE at protectwithbear.com) Liberty Lighthouse
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386 – In Loco Parentis, Tyrannis!
Who is in charge of your children? That has been a perennial question that grown in importance over the last few years. When I was a child, it was understood that, with rare exceptions, parents were in charge of a child’s upbringing. This included medical, religious, and educational decisions. However, over the last few decades, the role of the parent in these decisions has been replaced by experts. What happens when the goal of the experts differs from those of the parents? Who decides the future of the rising generations? It was understood that the state acted in loco parentis, in place of the parents, only for the safety of the child. A recent case in U.S. District Court shows that be it health departments, child services, schools or even the courts, government not only believes they know better than the parents, they are more than willing to act in loco parentis tyrannis.
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385 – Do Artificial Intelligences Have Rights?
With the release of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) applications, there has been a lot of speculation and downright assertions about our future. With over 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT), not more than a passing understanding of AIs, I’ve come to the conclusion that much of what I’ve heard is more science fiction than fact. A recent court case decided in the D.C. District Court revolved around one very important question. Do AIs have rights?
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Learn to Defend Your Rights in Just 2 Minutes a Day!
After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked “Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” His response was, A republic, if you can keep it. “If you can keep it” implies that keeping the republic is not automatic, that we must work for it. In today’s world that seems an almost…
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