Eminent Domain and Private Property
“. . . nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
Category: Constitution
Who Should Define Marriage?
“The best policy in a free nation is often no law at all, but leave it to the people to govern themselves, or as Jefferson stated, ‘That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.’ This is often the best protection of our unalienable rights.”
A Conversation about the Three-Fifths Clause – with a Bot!
“The slaveholding states wanted enslaved people counted as whole persons for representation but not for taxation. The Northern states desired the opposite. Three-fifths was their compromise.”
The Real Threat to Democracy
“Silencing people is a greater threat to democracy than their opinions will ever be.”
Even in Our Errors, People Act as a Check to Government Control
“I don’t know how it happens, Sister but I meet with no body but myself, that’s always in the right.”