On This Day at the Convention of 1787: You Won’t Believe What the Delegates Approved Regarding Presidential Elections
How would Americans react today if the Constitution were altered according to the vote of the delegates on July 26, 1787? ...
About: Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Posts by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Nearly Three-quarters of College Students Say Professors Should Be Reported for Saying Something ‘Offensive’
The high number of "liberal" students believing this is not surprising, but the number of "conservative" students agreeing is genuinely startling. ...
Michigan Appeals Court: Second Amendment Doesn’t Apply in ‘Sensitive Places’
Every place that forbids its occupants to be armed is more "sensitive" to senseless acts of armed violence. ...
The Convention of 1787: Gouverneur Morris Admits the Dangerous and Unspoken Truth of the Convention’s Power
That truth was revealed on July 23, 1787, during the debates and discourses of the original Constitutional Convention. ...
The Results Are In: Federal Overreach Will End if We “Add a New Limitation on the Federal Government”
However, the Founding Fathers added an "old" limitation on the federal government — it's called the Tenth Amendment. ...
NDAA Amendment Would Require Service Members to Register Privately Owned Weapons With the Pentagon
Sen. Chris Murphy's proposal would force military members to relinquish the very freedoms they are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to defend. ...
Does First Amendment Protect Opinions of Professors at State Universities?
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.” — Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letter No....
Hawley: Sending Troops to Europe Is Step Toward Never-ending War
In an interview at the Turning Point Action Conference, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) accused Joe Biden of getting the United States embroiled in “another endless war.” ...
Op-ed: Democracy Is Violent, So Let’s Make Sure to Not Arm Teachers
Ironically, the writer claims that the call by some legislators in several states to arm teachers is causing generations of kids to grow up afraid of being killed when...
House Passes Defense Bill With Key Prohibitions on “Transgender” Treatments, Abortion, and Drag Shows
Republicans didn't back down in their determination to prevent perversion from becoming the new normal in our military. ...
How Much Power Should the States Cede to Congress: The Convention Contention Continues
“Acting for the preservation of the Community, there can be but one Supreme Power, which is the Legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet...
Who Qualifies as “The Press” Under the First Amendment?
The drafters and ratifiers of the First Amendment had no concept of a “legitimate journalist” or “the media.” To them, the press was simply a way one disseminated one’s...
The Standard Our Founding Fathers Used to Measure Politicians
Herein we highlight the acts and attitudes of good and evil magistrates, so that we might learn to apply these standards to candidates asking for our support, as well...
Supreme Court Again to Try to Rewrite the Second Amendment
The biggest problem with the Court attempting to do this is that, whatever the ruling is, the people will accept it as valid. ...
Congress, Convention, and Compromise: Passage of the Northwest Ordinance Interrupts Constitutional Convention
Tension mounted in the Pennsylvania State House as delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 continued their sometimes heated debate over how to apportion representation in the House of...