Is there a Right to Healthcare?

    According to long established tradition in the English common law, and as explained by the eminent Blackstone, the three rights in the Declaration of Independence are as follows. Life is the right to live, intact with one’s limbs, eyes, and organs. Any physical damage that cripples or removes a limb, or eyes, or kills one violates this right. This definition was important because according to | Read More »

    Federalism Amendments – Reload

    Randy Barnett continues to work on the Bill of Federalism (previously blogged on here). His updated version is here (PDF). The Bill of Federalism was drafted by Professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown University Law School and is supported by The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition. You can support The Bill of Federalism by downloading the pdf above and delivering it, via email or print, to your | Read More »

    The Care and Feeding of Future Ex-Democrats

    Today, prompted by an anecdote at the American Thinker, The Other McCain (the conservative Hunter S. Thompson for today) wrote about finding and convincing future ex-Democrats that conservatism is the shiznit. Also, on RedState pilgrim wrote that the Thugocracy Will Yield a Bumper Crop of Ex-Democrats. I think that I shall never see, A billboard lovely as a tree Future Ex-Democrat. (Ogden Nash, mostly) Like | Read More »

    I Know My Rights—Do You?: Toward a Catalog of Unalienable Rights and Duties

    THE CALL The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. (Albert Einstein) “I know my rights.” We have all heard it. But what does it mean? What are the rights that are invoked but unlisted in the | Read More »

    Tea Parties and Federalism Amendments

    The assault on American traditions and freedoms led by the current congress and the Agitator-in-Chief has not gone unnoticed. The Tea Party movement is one such reaction. A popular movement to study and understand the original meaning of the Constitution is another (also see here). And finally, means to strengthen the original meaning of the Constitution, enforcing the original meaning with structural changes in the | Read More »