May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
If we are not to lose our freedom entirely, we shall have to find a way to restore the Commerce Clause to something like its original scope.
READ MOREThe Independence Institute is the oldest of the state-based think tanks. We mix Colorado issues with work on the U.S. Constitution.
READ MOREThe Rasmussen poll supports the view that America is under attack from what French author Julien Bender called La Trahison des Clercs—The Treason of the Intellectuals.
READ MOREThis latest survey—like all the previous ones—confirms that when the Constitution uses the word “Commerce,” it does so to mean only mercantile trade and its incidents.
READ MOREThe effect of this constitutional provision . . . is only to allow a state to defend itself fully—and without congressional consent—when invaded or about to be invaded.
READ MOREUnfortunately, Bracton College has been invaded by the self-styled “progressive element”—a group of academics very much like many I encountered during my university years.
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