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- Alexander's Column · Feb 1, 20022002 SOTU
Bush concluded his address by saying, “We choose freedom and the dignity of every life. Steadfast in our purpose, we now press on. We have known freedom’s price … programs in his last long-winded blowhard SOTU.) And while The Federalist has constitutional objections about Mr. Bush’s calls for such programs as a patients’ bill of rights
- Alexander's Column · Sep 28, 2001Taking the battle to the enemy
Bush is also correct to keep our ultimate objective front and center -- to support liberty and freedom for those peoples now suffering under the tyrannical thumb of oppressive regimes like … occurrence.” Now, our veteran readers know that The Patriot rallies first around our Constitution before anything else. While most of the legislative changes Mr. Ashcroft is seeking to broaden
- Alexander's Column · Sep 21, 2001Infinite Justice
terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated. ... By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they … mention “Communism”!] ... From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. ... As long
- Alexander's Column · Dec 28, 2000About The Federalist
rights are timeless and originate, as declared by our Founders, with the Author of life. Breaking with publishing convention, The Federalist promotes the commerce of ideas without promoting personalities … page . Also contrary to publishing convention, The Federalist depends on the goodwill and voluntary support of our readers -- creating some consternation among our accountants and bankers. We believe this method
- Alexander's Column · Nov 24, 2000Constitution and the Courts on the Election
dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that … Constitution, as explicated by The Federalist Papers. Some of our readers have questioned the assertion that our Constitution is “subordinate” to the Declaration of Independence. Our Constitution is clearly subordinated
- Alexander's Column · May 1, 2000On Patriotism
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... In the Constitution … that guided the creation of our great Republic, not unquestioning loyalty to the state, constitutes American patriotism. After all, the roots of American patriotism reside in the very willingness
- Alexander's Column · Apr 28, 2000The Elian Gonzalez case: Janet Reno v. the rule of law
Americans.” Rep. Ron Paul notes, “The rule of law and the Constitution have been completely ignored and a police-state mentality dictated the actions by the Administration and carried … fact that his mother had custody of Elian and gave up her life attempting to win him freedom on our shores. And it was heavily influenced by the fact that
- Alexander's Column · Mar 3, 2000Straight talk about John McCain
best we can discern, however, McCain’s actions in the presidential primary thus far, constitute little more than “slash and burn.” Mr. McCain deserves our respect for his military service … individual responsibility, for limited government, for Second Amendment rights, for the right to life of pre-birth babies. Indeed, these issues rarely occupy a high profile in McCain’s rhetoric
- Alexander's Column · Mar 1, 2000The Roots of Liberty: ‘The Unanimous Declaration...’
called in common parlance, a “Living Constitution” , effectively undermining constitutional exegesis -- the constructionist interpretation of the Constitution as written and ratified. If the Constitution can be amended by judicial diktat … national government honor their oaths to “support and defend” our Constitution. Of course, the Constitution is subordinate to the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution’s author, James Madison, wrote Thomas
- Alexander's Column · Feb 1, 2000On ‘The Unanimous Declaration’
called in common parlance, a “Living Constitution” , effectively undermining “constitutional eisegesis” -- the constructionist interpretation of the Constitution as written and ratified. If the Constitution can be amended by judicial diktat … national government honor their oaths to “support and defend” our Constitution. Of course, the Constitution is subordinate to the Declaration of Independence . The Constitution’s author, James Madison, wrote Thomas
- Alexander's Column · Jan 1, 2000Article the Second, Bill of Rights — The Second Amendment
bearing arms, which was central to the debates over ratification of the Constitution. Defending the proposed Constitution, Alexander Hamilton was unambiguous on the importance of arms to a republic, writing … ever for the support of the laws.” In the ratification debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Samuel Adams demanded, “The Constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent
- Alexander's Column · Jan 1, 2000The Fourteenth Amendment and Immigration
State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same … United States Constitution *Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment. (For Constitutional context, read “To secure these rights...” on The Bill of Rights and A “Living Constitution
- Alexander's Column · Jan 1, 2000The Bill of Rights
syllable in the [Constitution] which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this … outlines the clear limits on central government power established in the Constitution: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which
- Alexander's Column · Jan 1, 2000On the Sixteenth Amendment
particular exceptions.” Anti-Federalists also understood the need to restrict taxation to support only those things constitutionally reserved for the central government: “To compel a man to furnish contributions … Republican President William Howard Taft (1909-1913) did the unthinkable, recommending to Congress a constitutional amendment authorizing taxation on income. Though such an amendment’s passage through Congress seemed likely