Commentary

Constitution Study Live Q&A – September 9, 2021

You bring the questions, I’ll bring the answers.

281 – Due Process Clauses

I’ve been talking a lot recently about the Due Process Clauses in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Why? Because they seem to be lost in the noise created by the current legal climate. I thought it would be a good time to dive deeper into these two clauses, both so we can understand them and see how often they are violated, even if the judiciary does not.

Constitution Study Q&A

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269 – If Liberty in America Falls

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Ronald Reagan – “Encroaching Control”, March 30, 1961

265 – Federalism

Why do we call the government of the United States the federal government, when the Constitution doesn’t refer to it that way? What is this idea of federalism and why is it important to the health of the republic? And how can we use federalism to protect our rights?

Undiscovered Country

I don’t know who said it, but I’ve heard the future described as the undiscovered country. Today, I have some undiscovered country to ponder with you.

251 – Is a federal Minimum Wage law Constitutional?

There’s a lot of talk lately about a new federal minimum wage. I thought this would be a good time not only to ask the question, is it constitutional, but to look at a couple of supreme Court cases about it from our history.

250 – Does government rule the people?

This country was formed with a radical idea, that the people rule the government rather than the government ruling the people. That idea has been eroded almost since the beginning. But the rate at which the people have voluntarily given up their sovereignty to become servants of government has exploded over the last few decades. So today I want to ponder the power structure the Framers created, compare it to how we live today, and consider some ideas to preserve rights and liberties in America.