Secure the Blessings of Liberty

View Attributions and the Full Transcript If one would be required to sign an Informed Consent document to have a mole removed, howcould the Consent of the Governed be legally undermined through the deceptive practices ofprevaricating politicians that routinely target the voting public with misleading statements?The abandonment of principle that has led to its surreptitious … Read more

Promote the General Welfare

View Attributions and the Full Transcript With its Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court hasboth enabled and facilitated clear Deprivations of Rights under the Color of Law. The ThirteenthAmendment, in Section 1 is unambiguous with the statement “Neither slavery nor involuntaryservitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party … Read more

Provide for the Common Defense

View Attributions and the Full Transcript George Washington, in his Farewell Address, said: “Political parties may now and then answerpopular ends, but they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines,by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of thepeople and to usurp for … Read more

Insure Domestic Tranquility

View Attributions and the Full Transcript In the Majority Supreme Court Opinion on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v.Bruen, Justice Thomas wrote “. . . when it comes to interpreting the Constitution, not all historyis created equal. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood tohave when the people adopted … Read more

Establish Justice

View Attributions and the Full Transcript Melville W. Fuller was the first Chief Justice to lobby Congress. He successfully advocated forthe adoption of the Circuit Courts of Appeals Act of 1891. It established appellate courts,which reduced the Supreme Court’s backlog and allowed it to decide cases in a more timelymanner. In 1893, President Grover Cleveland … Read more

To Form a More Perfect Union

View Attributions and the Full Transcript Abraham Lincoln steadfastly believed that the Constitution should be interpreted in a mannerthat is faithful to its purposes. Today, the legacy of Lincoln stands as an inspiring exampleagainst the pernicious sophistries of those who seek to undermine what John Wycliffedescribed in the Preface to his translation of the Latin … Read more

We the People of the United States

View Attributions and the Full Transcript “Obviously people can say what they want. And they’re certainly free to criticize theSupreme Court. And if they want to say that its legitimacy is in question they’re free todo so but I don’t understand the connection between opinions that people disagreewith and the legitimacy of the Court.” John … Read more

Paper 195 – After Pentecost

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