The Study Corner

308 – Can States Rein in the Federal Government?

With all of the unconstitutional laws, executive orders, and regulations coming out of Washington, D.C. lately, people often wonder, what can be done. An out of control federal government was nothing new in America. At the end of the 18th century, two of our Founding Fathers wrote about keeping the federal government in check. Let’s look at how these two men expected the states to rein in the federal government.

306 – Republican Form of Government

We keep hearing about threats to America’s democracy. Occasionally I’ll hear someone point out that the United States is not a democracy, but a republic. How many Americans know the difference? And just what are the responsibilities of the federal government to protect that republican for of government?

304 – Stealing Presidential Elections From the States

Does Congress have the legal power to regulate Presidential elections? The answer is no. Yet Senators Angus King, Amy Klobuchar, and Dick Durbin have released a discussion draft of their legislation to place Congress in control of the Presidential election process, in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States. Let’s look at this blatant act of theft in the light of what the Constitution actually says. Then we can decide how to deal with these oath-breakers.

302 – The Federal Government v. The American People – Injunction Opinion

In a previous post I reviewed the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in two sets of cases involving federal vaccine mandates. It did not take long for the court to decide those cases. However, as is often the case, the reporting on these cases has been fairly atrocious. I’ve heard several respected people claim that the court “struck down” the OHSA mandate while others lamented the court decided not to protect healthcare workers. While the opinions the court offered are spilt, we need to remember that the court was only dealing with whether or not to enjoin these mandates until these cases have worked their way through the court system. The actual opinions regarding these injunctions is a bit of a mixed bag, but certainly not the definitive outcome you may have read or heard. So let us look at the opinions without the hype or hyperbole, and see if we can find a clue as to the state of the justice system in America today.

300 – Consequences of a Government Run Amok

Recently, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services enforcing new rules regarding COVID-19 “vaccine” and mask mandates in Head Start programs. While this is good news for liberty in America, it also hides a terrifying secret. That more and more, America is run less like a constitutional republic and more like a kingdom or an oligarchy, where those in positions of power merely dictate to the rest of us how we are to live our lives. The case Texas v. Becerra is not over, and neither is the need of the American people to rein in the out of control government that resides in Washington, D.C.

298 – Defending Public Liberty

There are certain idea that we find detestable. Concepts we find repulsive. Even some actions that we cannot abide. But do we have the right to tell other people that they must live by what we find acceptable? How many dystopian novels are based in the idea that only approved thought is allowed in society? Benjamin Franklin, writing as Silence Dogood wrote:

“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

What will you do to protect public liberty? What will you allow, not because you approve, but because you recognize the right of others to live differently than you?

297 – Controlling a Constitutionally Protected Right

The Declaration of Independence lists some of our inalienable rights. It also says “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”. If governments are created to secure our rights, does that mean they have the legitimate power to regulate them? Yet in many situations, governments at all levels claim that power. So what happens when We the People allow governments to control our rights? More importantly, what can we do to regain control of our rights.

296 – Spying on American Gun Owners Act

Benjamin Franklin said:

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”

Yet with the promise of keeping us safe from “gun violence”, “violent extremists”, and “domestic terrorists”, Congress wants you to give up your essential liberty to be free from unreasonable searches. H.R. 5764 is the first step to a writ of assistance against anyone who buys or sells firearms. This has been done before, so why shouldn’t Congress think they can get away with it again?