Showing posts with label constitutional amendments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitutional amendments. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

A review of “The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments” (audiobook)

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“The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution , or on the applica...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

The Fourteenth Amendment is something of a mixed bag …

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It might seem strange to say it today, but the “Bill of Rights” amendments were once understood to apply only to the federal government, ...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” (PBS)

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“After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the import...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Second Amendment: Protecting the gun rights “of the people”

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"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Who can vote in the United States?: The voting rights amendments

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" ... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ." - Closing lines of  Abr...
Friday, December 15, 2017

The tyrannical police state: The worst nightmare of the Founding Fathers

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"A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on...

Actually, the death penalty IS constitutional (as the Fifth Amendment makes clear)

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"The principle that there is a  presumption of innocence in favor of the accused  is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and...
Friday, December 1, 2017

The First Amendment: Protecting religion from government (and not the other way around)

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"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God , that he owes account to none other for his ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

10 “what if” scenarios that could create constitutional crises (in some places) …

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"In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties o...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The Constitution keeps our elected officials on a short leash

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"Before he [the president] enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: I do solemnly swear...
Monday, September 25, 2017

The amendment that never made it into the Bill of Rights

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"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services , to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Tre...
Monday, August 28, 2017

The First Amendment: Protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press

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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall , in a statement o...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

So what exactly are the “midterm elections,” anyway?

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"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of  two Senators from each State , chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six year...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

An overview of the United States Congress

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"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States , which shall consist of a  Senate  and  Ho...

How are constitutional amendments passed?

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"The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

A review of PBS’s “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony”

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"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of pe...
Monday, August 8, 2016

United States Census can influence a state’s votes in Congress (and the presidential elections)

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"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of pe...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

A review of “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War”

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"The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounti...
Monday, December 15, 2014

The Bill of Rights: historical context and strict construction

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"The enumeration [or "listing"] in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

A review of Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln”

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" ... that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom ... " - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863) ...