Known as the “Penman of the Revolution,” he endured a struggle that would tear at his ideological core and spur his political activism. Despite all adversity in front of him, Dickinson worked meticulously to produce a freer society. He did so while recognizing small strides were important ones.
Despite all historical evidence to the contrary, it is often claimed that the Constitution is a “living document” that is easily malleable through semantics and modern desires for extended federal power.
I believe Mason, Randolph, Wilson, and Sherman were correct in their view that such a convention is the superior way to amend the Constitution, rather than relying upon the federal government to be the sole body to propose amendments.
Two measures of federal overreach – The Writs of Assistance and the NSA. One from the 1760s and one contemporary, both can be rejected in the same way.
Called “His Accidency” by his political adversaries to refer to the way in which he assumed the office, John Tyler is perhaps the most underrated President in United States history.
When a group of nine judges attempt to make law for a populace of 310 million and settle constitutional questions for all time, they are acting against the interests of the compact of the Constitution.
