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.
176 – Electoral Imbecility
Two cases before the supreme Court give enough evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our legal education system is an utter failure when it comes to the supreme law of the land. The arguments are so bad I thought my head was going to explode!
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175 – Pondering Riots
I generally take a few days to digest a news article before I bring it to you. And today I’m glad I do. Because as I’ve learned more about what has been going on in our cities the last couple of weeks has led me to think deeper about how we should react. So let’s take some time and ponder riots.
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174 – The TRACE Act – Bribing States to Spy on their Citizens
Those in the federal government using your money to bribe the states to do what they wants in nothing new. But this little piece of tyranny takes it a step further. In an effort to “protect” you from this nasty COVID-19 virus the federal government wants to pay states to spy on you.
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173 – Rhode v. Becerra and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
In a win for the rights and liberties of the citizens on California, Judge Roget Benitez issued an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of CA ammunition background check and anti-importation laws. We’ll ponder what this means next, on The Constitution Study.
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172 – They’re Coming for Your Children
I guess the title of this post has become a trope. It seems every time we’re told we must do something we don’t like we’re told we have to ‘do it for the children’. Every evil, every invasion of a new idea, seems couched with the idea that they are coming for our children. However,…
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171 – Pledge to Read the Constitution
For many Americans, reciting the words of the Pledge of Allegiance is like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket. Familiar, yet sometimes polarizing, these words describe a country that is fast disappearing into the mist of the past. But is that the only pledge the American people should be making. We’ll ponder that next, on The Constitution Study.
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170 – Giving Constitutional Scholars a Bad Name
I know lawyers do not study the Constitution in law school, but when I heard what supposed “Constitutional Scholar” Alan Dershowitz said on Crowdsource The Truth regarding state powers, all I could think is that it gave all true scholars a bad name.
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