Category — Federalist

Progressive efforts to consolidate power have picked up speed recently. Massachusetts is one of several states that has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.   Read the rest of this entry »

It's no surprise that Obama, who is often questioned on his versions of facts, should have departed from the truth. It is that he would do so on matters so easily disproved. Perhaps the people's lack of discernment is so widespread that he can get by with it.   Read the rest of this entry »

Looking back through the lens of history we tend to accept the sequence of events that gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as somehow inevitable.  Most Americans make little or no distinction between ratification of the Constitution …

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Like the drunk who wakes up in an unfamiliar place, we wonder, “How did we get here?” We appear to be in America, but the landscape is unfamiliar.

According to the US Census Bureau, in the third quarter of 2008, …

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Upon reading the title of Federalist No. 6, Concerning Danger from War Between the States, I thought, “I’ll just give it a cursory read.”  (I intend to read them all.)  There are distinct groupings of the Federalist Papers. Some …

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