Waving a pocket copy of the Constitution in the air like it was a magic token is weird. It doesn’t matter so much if the words “domestic tranquility” are written down somewhere. What matters is whether domestic tranquility actually exists on the streets across the country.
Read MoreThe aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Read MoreThe notion that the Constitution provides Americans with a solid basis or foundation of law just isn’t supported in this matter.
Read MoreIt is possible that the slogan, which I’m devoting 1,000 words to the defense of, is simply the worst kind of dog whistle for hate and bigotry.
Read MoreBibliography of books and major articles cited in A Citizen’s Syllabus, and/or books that are worth reading.
Read MoreThe rightness or wrongness of an idea is independent of who supports it. The Earth orbited the Sun even before Copernicus said it did.
Read MoreAll the petroleum the planet will ever have — petroleum that the planet took 300 million years to produce — was squandered by two generations.
Read MoreShould one group of people ever be allowed to borrow money and spend it, then compel other people (who had no part in the decision to borrow and spend) to pay the debt for them?
Read MoreThe founding fathers, including the authors of the Constitution, didn’t like direct democracy. But the love of democracy did develop.
Read MoreNancy Pelosi is tremendously powerful. Her power doesn’t derive from the consent of the governed, though, because the number of votes she received was insignificant on a national scale.
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Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels
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