Opinion
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The NFL Flap Exposes Media Ignorance and the Failure of Civic Education
Opinion -Editorial -The huge dust-up over the protests of the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem by National Football League players has served to dramatize a massive deficiency in civics education in this nation. -
Honor Freedom and Sacrifice on Bill of Rights Day
Opinion -Declining understanding of and respect for the Bill of Rights threatens to bring on the loss of our liberties. -
State Lawmakers Ready to Follow Up on Amendment Convention Meeting
Opinion -budget-tax-news -State legislatures returning to work in January include 72 lawmakers from 19 states who attended a September 2017 national planning session authorizing rules and procedures for an upcoming national amendment convention. -
Michigan House Approves Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Opinion -budget-tax-news, health-care-news -The Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill to join an interstate compact to synchronize its medical licensing regulations with those of 22 other states, allowing health care providers licensed in participating states to provide services. -
Rights for a River? An Effort to Undermine Democracy
Opinion -Editorial -An environmental organization is asking a court to grant a river status as a "person" with the rights of personhood, thereby launching an attack on judicial fairness, the rule of law, and democracy. -
Balanced Budget Amendment Article V Convention an Enormous Success
Opinion -Editorial -With a focus on balancing the monumental debt plaguing the United States, the states push for an amendment aimed at restoring federal fiscal restraint. -
Prosecuting or Removing ‘Faithless’ Presidential Electors is Unconstitutional
Opinion -Editorial -A 2016 Colorado Democratic presidential elector who pledged to vote for Hillary Clinton is suing because the state removed him from his position after he voted for Ohio Gov. John Kasich instead. He joins two other electors with somewhat similar claims. -
Convention of States: How the States Meet to Bypass Congress
Opinion -Editorial -The idea of a convention of states such as the one scheduled for Phoenix, Arizona on September 12 may be unfamiliar to most people, but similar conventions have gathered throughout American history. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Scholars Comment on Historic Article V Planning Meeting in Arizona
Opinion -Press Release -"This balanced budget amendment planning convention is the proper first step to inform and educate all Americans about the power granted to the states in Article V of the U.S. Constitution." - Neal Schuerer -
How a ‘Convention of States’ Could Tweak the Constitution
Opinion -Editorial -Representatives of state legislatures from across the nation will converge in Phoenix, Arizona on Sept. 12 to participate in a traditional American institution called a “convention of states.” -
Rising From the Political Ashes in Phoenix
Opinion -Editorial -In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a symbol of rebirth. As its former life came to an end in a show of flames and spontaneous combustion, a newer, even better life was born from the ashes of its predecessor. -
House Judiciary Committee Hears Balanced Budget Amendment Testimony
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Representatives of the Compact Commission of the Compact for a Balanced Budget, an interstate agency promoting a national constitutional amendment convention resolution, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee. -
Arizona Legislature Hosts Balanced Budget Amendment Convention Planning Meeting
Opinion -News -Arizona’s legislature will host a national planning session, authorizing rules and procedures for an upcoming future national amendment convention. -
In Washington State, Property Rights Take Back Seat to the Environment, Court Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Washington State Court of Appeals ruled the public’s interest in protecting the environment trumps the right to use one’s property. -
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Muddies Property Rights
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) delivered a blow to a Wisconsin family and opened new questions about Fifth Amendment protections for private property throughout the nation. -
Interior Department Moves to Shrink Multiple National Monuments
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration is reviewing 27 national monuments, considering shrinking them in size and altering the activities allowed within their borders. -
List of Conventions of States and Colonies in American History
Opinion -Editorial -Conventions of states, and before Independence of colonies have met frequently over the past three centuries. A “Convention for proposing Amendments” held under the Constitution is a gathering of this type. -
Donor Disclosure Question Won’t Be on 2018 South Dakota Ballot
Opinion -budget-tax-news -After announcing plans to begin collecting signatures for a ballot measure asking South Dakota voters to approve requiring out-of-state nonprofit organizations to disclose private donors, an out-of-state nonprofit organization is abandoning its plans -
Part II: What Do We Do About Legal Realism and Its Promotion of Judicial Activism?
Opinion -Editorial -In the previous installment in this two-part series, I surveyed how the theory of “legal realism” came to displace the traditional views of law shared by Anglo-American attorneys and judges. -
House Budget Bill Blocks Funds for Religious Speech Enforcement
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A budget bill under consideration by Congress contains language blocking Internal Revenue Service enforcement of tax laws prohibiting political speech by religious organizations. -
EPA Moves to Scrap WOTUS Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Army, and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to rescind the controversial 2015 Waters of the United States rule. -
Arizona Slates Article V Planning Convention for September
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The planning convention would lay the groundwork for an amendment convention in the future. -
The People’s Constitutional Solution to Fixing Washington
Opinion -Editorial -The federal government is incapable of fixing itself. Another mechanism is needed. -
Part I: Judicial activism: Here’s a core reason for it you’ve never heard about
Opinion -Editorial -Whenever a court issues a highly publicized liberal activist decision, constitutionalists understandably become upset. They cast around for ways to stop this kind of overreaching.
