The View From 1776

Constitutional Principles

Monday, August 09, 2010

What Are They Aiming To Do?

Democrat/Socialists talk about lowering unemployment, but their fiscal and monetary policies impede creation of jobs and re-hiring of laid-off workers.  It should be obvious by now that reducing unemployment is not their objective. 

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Nominee Kagan And Natural Law Rights

To be a liberal-progressive in good standing with the radical left, one must accept on faith the Darwinian doctrine that there are no permanent truths, no things that are inherently good.  In the liberal-progressive catechism, all things, from life forms to the Constitution, are continually evolving.

Thus can Elena Kagan ignore the inalienable natural law rights on which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, are founded.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Questions Concerning President Obama

Jeff Lukens reviews questions and speculations that dog the president.  Whether there is some anti-American, hidden agenda in the White House is not clear.  But the president is without question intent upon socializing our political and economic framework to the maximum extent possible, which amounts to the same thing.

Saturday, July 03, 2010

July 4, 2010: Rededicate Ourselves To The Declaration

The events triggered by the Declaration of Independence were not a revolution.  They were a struggle to gain independence from arbitrary exercise of government power.

Thursday, July 01, 2010

The 17th Amendment Revisited

Original provisions of the Constitution intended to prevent Congress from enacting “dumb” laws were vitiated by ratification of the 17th Amendment.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Autocrat In The White House

Thomas Sowell describes the degeneration of constitutional government currently under way.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Immigration Redux

Heather Mac Donald says no to amnesty.

Democrat/Socialists want a flood of illegals whom they can register to vote. Why not just register Cuba and Mexico as Democrat/Socialist Party voters and mail their welfare payments to them?

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Arbitrary Exercise of Power

In the long battle between the English monarch and his subjects, beginning with Magna Carta in 1215 and extending to our 1776 War of Independence, the thrust was to restrain the rulers within a framework of checks and balances that tended toward fairness.  One term, arbitrary, was frequently used to characterize unfair exercise of political power.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

A Preview of Obama's Judicial Bent

The president’s nominee for the Federal Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, suggests the sort of nominee we may expect for the Supreme Court.  His Appeals Court nominee is guided by the critical studies paradigm of justice, notoriously advocated by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: all that counts is, not what the Constitution says, but who has the power to impose his social and political views.

Read A Judge Too Far.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

College Campus Censorship

Organized campaigns to silence dissent and to prevent consideration of opposing views are not confined to global-warming “scientists” and their supporters in the media and among liberal-progressives lusting for the power to control you and me.

Read the assessment by Alan Dershowitz, a highly regarded civil rights lawyer, who tags such action for what it is: subversion of First Amendment rights.