A Federalist Moment: Recent Episodes
Don Westen
The Electoral College is designed around fairness and ensures every vote counts. Americans tend to forget, however, the United States has a federalist government and "every vote" counts in a way some may not expect.
The President is limited by the same Constitution as the rest of government. A "workaround" is just another way of breaking a law. If the Constitution is the law of the land...
Treason has a very specific meaning we must respect lest we weaken the protections of the Constitution. When redefining legal terms with penalties of death, we should be careful what we wish for.
The federal government seems to think it can regulate anything it wants. Even the sounds in the air. Our state representatives are supposed to be holding the federal government accountable to the Constitution... not helping them violate it.
You can't have a tyrannical government unless it's the only government. As we empower a centralized federal government, we potentially hand ourselves over to the tyrannical government our founders warned us about.
Our federal healthcare system has been "retained and renamed," and will result in the same single-payer system. This is the reality of two "opposition" parties working toward the same goal, trampling the Constitution along the way.
The fight for liberty is never over. Not as long as there are those who wish to take it away.
States are bound by the same second amendment as the federal government. It's time to honor the constitution again. Liberty starts local.
Words are important. If we allow state's rights to become responsibilities we turn freedoms into requirements. The Constitution limits government. Let it work as intended.
Many politicians beg for our vote claiming they want to "serve the People," yet once in office, they always seem to push their party agenda instead. All one needs to do is listen to what politicians say... and don't say... to know what's in their agenda.
As some states move toward defying legitimate, federal law, we are reminded that a union is an agreement and all sides must uphold their end of the bargain.