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	Take the Constitution Test 25 questions you should be able to answer about our founding document
2mar08	God and the State in America TYSK Only a willful disregard for the clear meaning of the 1st Amendment would lead one to believe that God and religion were to be excised from any and all matters related to the state. Should you doubt this – or wish to have further proof – consider the Preambles to all of the 50 United States’ constitutions.
23sep07	Originalism: A Primer David Schraub Originalism rose to prominence in the Reagan era because, as Edwin Meese put it in an uncharacteristic moment of candor, it promised to remake the Court in a way that would halt the slide toward "the radical egalitarianism and expansive civil libertarianism of the Warren Court."
13jun05	The Future of Self-Government Kim Weissman Nine justices on the Supreme Court writing a new Constitution as they see fit, and then mandating that the entire nation obey, is a decidedly undemocratic process which results in meanings that were never adopted or ratified by the people, but which are imposed upon them without their consent.
5apr05	Judicial Supremacy and The Constitution Kim Weissman Justice must be about more than just process – to be respected, a system of justice not only has to do justice, but has to be seen and believed by the people to be doing justice.
6dec04	Judicial Despotism Kim Weissman “To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1820)
6nov04	The Election Monitoring Circus Leaves Town Peyton Knight Our electoral system is a certified thing of beauty. It places accountability at the local level, thereby empowering citizens to effectively police themselves and solve any unique problems that only they can diagnose.
26jul04	How Treaties Trump the Constitution Henry Lamb Nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorizes the federal government to regulate private property. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorizes the federal government to manage wildlife or prescribe land use regulations within the various states.
3mar04	Almighty Judges Kim Weissman Are the decisions of federal judges The Final Answers to any issue? Would we accept an Executive who could dictate policy that is final, incontrovertible, and could not be challenged? That would make the president into a king, would it not?
28jan04	No Constitution Remains Kim Weissman Viewed in the cold light of the reality that our Constitution is no longer a barrier to what our government does, why is anyone surprised that our elections have degenerated into a contest to see which politician can promise to give us more?
13jan04	Why Not Term Limits? George M. Haddad It is conventional wisdom that incumbents are in a better position to prepare and amass massive mailing lists, develop political machines, make invaluable political contacts and continue with year 'round fund raising. In term limit states this has changed dramatically.
9aug03	Did the Founders Understand the Constitution? Dorothy Anne Seese Either the Founders misunderstood the Constitution they drafted and the states ratified, or the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is clueless as to the meaning and intent of the Constitution and our founders.
13apr03	The Declaration of Independence, 2003 In a Convention of Sovereign States, July 4, 2003 The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America
23mar03	The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Brilliance of the Founders Lawrence W. Reed So many functions within both major parties are devoid of principles that sometimes you have to wonder if the membership believes in anything besides beating the other side at election time.
26dec02	America Was A Christian Nation Dorothy Anne Seese If anyone still doubts that America was a Christian nation, let them review the charters of the original colonies, the charters of such states as Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or New York.
20nov02	National Death by the Pharisees Paul E. Scates The similarity between the impact of the Pharisees on established Judaism and the impact our own political Pharisees on American Founding principles is striking, and informative.
21jul02	Are we to Live Under the ICC or the Bill of Rights? Kim Weissman The philosophy of the ICC (and the U.N.) is that governments are superior to the people, granting or withholding rights as they see fit. This is the European model, but it is not America's.
9feb02	Are We Too Stupid to Understand? The Liberty Committee Apparently members of the US Senate believe that we are and cannot grasp the challenges to the US Constitution presented by the "reforms" proposed under the guise of campaign finance reform.
17nov01	G-d And Liberty; Liberals And Lies The awareness of G-d as the source of our liberty, in turn, hampers the efforts of liberals/socialists who need to change the founding documents, in interpretation and even in fact, in order to implement their big government agenda.
31jul01	An Open Letter to Statists Everywhere "If you’re among those many people who spend most of their time and energies advocating a litany of proposals for expanded government action, and little or no time recommending offsetting reductions in state power, then this letter has indeed found its mark."
18jun01	Our Flaw? We're Just Not Liberals Suddenly, the Federalist Society is the talk of the town. But what exactly is this society? Is it some secret fraternity? Does it — heaven forbid — have "an agenda"?
20mar01	The Price Of Indolence Are we citizens of our States, protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, or have we unknowingly forfeited our original relationship with government, for a federal citizenship with dubious benefits and dangerous concessions of our liberty?
13mar01	Are We Citizens Of Our States? The government recognizes two distinct classes of citizens: a state Citizen and a federal citizen. State Citizens created the states who created the federal government who created federal citizens.
9feb01	How Many Bills of Rights do we Need? Everyone from medical patients to airline passengers is demanding their own bill of rights. This trend runs contrary to the ideas behind the genuine article.
4feb01	Wall Of Separation The radical left's worst nightmare — a religious, moral, and well-armed population. How could they ever impose their socialist ideology under those conditions?
25jan01	Constitutional Ignorance During last week's confirmation hearings, Sen. Kennedy laid into President Bush's attorney general nominee John Ashcroft about his strong support for the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. Kennedy demanded that Ashcroft apologize to the American people.	Print and save this one!
26dec00	Genesis of the Civil War Interesting, isn't it, that today, those who favor banning Confederate symbols and continue to demonize an entire people's history also tend to be partisans of the federal government in all its present political struggles?
12dec00	Envy, Egalitarianism, and Empire Though the Founding Fathers were committed to the establishment of a Republic of self-governing, sovereign States, they feared that the "dissolution toward empire, which had occurred in Rome, was historically inevitable."
19nov00	How To Subvert Freedom Unearthed Secret Memo for radical activists who are dedicated to subverting a democratic nation's freedom.
6nov00	A review of States Rights and the Union Famed historian Forrest McDonald concludes that the states were sovereign during the revolution and remained so under the Articles of Confederation and even under the Constitution of 1787.
3sep00	Constitutional Protections Ignored Increasingly, we have been ignoring the limits imposed by our Constitution, usually in the name of some "greater good" or "general welfare". We do so at our great peril.
27aug00	Liberal Intolerance Nothing so enrages "diverse" leftists and "tolerant" democrats as someone refusing to bow down to their ideology.
11jul00	Hands Off Government Once it becomes clear that government schools indoctrinate captive students in the tenets and dogma of humanism to the exclusion of all other religions, it also becomes clear that the government itself is in the business of establishing a state-run, religious monopoly.
29apr00	New Life for the "One Drop" Rule It is breath-taking to find old ideas about "blood" now resuscitated in a respectable law review, and by an African-American scholar. Now the fear, apparently, is that some whites will try to "pass" as black.
25mar00	Post-Constitution America: Night of the "Living" Dead Statists, collectivists and the left need to take heed: when their power and influence are lost and a truly evil form of government arises, there will be no document around in any meaningful form to run to as a last resort.
12mar00	Rejected FDR at the Gates of Hell This New Deal-era ditty pictured FDR persuading the devil of his worthiness to enter Hell. (1930s)
28jan00	Looking for a constitutional culprit in the cancerous growth of federal power? Look no further than the Commerce Clause If growing food for your own consumption has a "substantial effect" on interstate commerce and is therefore subject to congressional regulation, it’s hard to see what area of life is beyond federal authority.
31jan00	Who Judges The Judges? We are becoming the only people in history to voluntarily throw away our liberty and embrace servitude.
19dec99	The Federal Kingdom It is remarkable how willing, even eager, some people in this country are to abandon representative government, and to adopt dictatorial solutions to (usually non-existent) problems.
10dec99	America Must Restore the Foundations of Freedom Should the people still have the authority to run the country through their elected legislators?
7nov99	Tyranny By Usurpation We, the People, have failed miserably to protect our Constitutional heritage
29sep99	Congress Passes Americans With No Abilities Act Sweeping new legislation that provides benefits and protection for more than 135 million talentless Americans.
25sep99 & 1oct99	The Federalists Revisited Part I ~~O~~ Part II Today's central government -- particularly the judiciary branch and the executive branch under Bill Clinton -- bears little resemblance to those branches as envisioned by our Founders and the principal authors of our U.S. Constitution.	This is Print & Save material
	Putting God Back in the Public Square The 'Ten Commandment' Judge, Roy S. Moore, on his seven-year battle to preserve religious freedom of expression in the courtroom and in the public arena.
	Amerika, Amerika by Claire Wolfe
	Why a Constitution? Our Constitution is under incredible assault today, and many people question why we need such a document at all.
	Government Charity as explained by Colonel David Crockette
	Bill of No Rights

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