We The People The most famous words ever written. These words start the Preamble to the world’s most important document: The US Constitution The Constitution is the world’s oldest written national governing document. Many countries have rewritten their Constitution multiple times whilst this document has been in existence. It is the envy of the world. It established the governance for the Unites States of America, a governance structure unique in the history of man. A structure which recognizes a founding principle that no other nation had ever utilized: Rights of the government are granted by the People. Since these Rights are granted by the People, they can NEVER be taken away by the government. What is foundational to the American experience, and unique to America, is that these Rights were granted to the People by God, that these Rights are “endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The writers of the American Constitution were purposeful to balance the Rights of the People and States with the Rights of the Federal government. During the framing of the document, consideration was given to ensuring the Federal governments Rights were limited to those expressly provided. Any Right not expressly enumerated in the Constitution remained a Right of the States. The Constitution starts with the famous Preamble. Not merely an Executive Summary but a statement establishing the People are creating a government to benefit the People. It is the guiding principle, to form a “more perfect union.” The Constitution, thru its 7 Articles, establishes the Legislative Branch, it creates the Executive Branch which acknowledges the position of President, it sets up the Judicial Branch and its lower court structure. The last 4 Articles address important issues like federalism, Constitutional amendments, the Supremacy Clause and the process for the ratification of changes. Importantly, the use of the 3, coequal Branches of Government established the unique principal of “Checks and Balances.” The Electoral College was created to ensure the new President wasn’t elected by a simply majority…a means to ensure larger states didn’t hold power over smaller states. In March 1789, 9 states ratified the new Constitution, creating a Constitutional Republic, a system whereby the People elect their representatives to serve the People with powers which are expressly limited. Missing from the Constitution, and a source of much debate and angst, is the document America calls the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights, famously listing the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, was passed by Congress 6 months after the implementation of the Constitution. This document is so important and fundamental to the American experience that the Framers of the Constitution had to promise to pass this document after the implementation in order for the Constitution to become ratified. The Framers of the Constitution took inspiration from great Philosophers. It considered the structure of previous great civilizations like that of the Romans and the Greeks. It incorporated the best ideals from other founding documents like the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, amongst many others, of course. Then, the Framers structured a completely unique government and a document that encompassed the brilliance that is the United States of America.

Damn. Trump ain’t fooling around. CBP paying special attention to the Air Canada flights. Mobile XRay unit on the scene.

I’m a businessman and one of the most conservative members of Congress. Now we need people of courage in the Senate who will STAND UP and FIGHT to pass the SAVE America Act, who will be fiscally responsible, and get President Trump’s America First Agenda across the finish line. GO VOTE and VOTE RALPH NORMAN FOR SENATE! 🇺🇸

Dinesh knows better. Polymarket is a betting site, not a scientific poll. He hasn’t disclosed whether he is being paid by anyone to post this. I’m not being paid by anyone to tell you Norman is the Conservative and we need more Normans and less Grahams.

Both of these multimillionaires can afford a weekend on Mackinac Island. How about you and your family?

This is yet another reason the failure of the Republican Party to enact MASS DEPORTATIONS is so scandalous. Democrats will give citizenship to the Marxist and Communist illegals and win the popular vote. They’ll no longer need to worry about the Midwest States, they’ll only have to govern to keep the coastal elites happy…until they have complete control and can pass America off to the Globalists.

Jack Hughes NAILED it. He just gave the most incredible interview after scoring the winning goal against Canada. “This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I’m so proud to be American today.” GOD BLESS THE USA 🇺🇸

Jack Hughes: “Canada is a great hockey team, but team USA…We’re just so proud to be American!” THAT’S IT RIGHT THERE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Jack Hughes = American hero. He never gives interview like this. Just absolutely in love with America, proud to be an American, blood on his face, and only praising his other teammates---never once mentioned his own play. The anti-woke example. Proud to be an American today.

We The People The Federalist Papers: Federalist 78 It’s May of 1788 and the US Constitution is in draft form. The Framers are trying to convince States to ratify the new document. We are close, it’s only another month until that occurs. There is a fierce debate on-going about a new structure of American government. The fight is whether America should have strong States Rights or whether America needs a stronger federal government. Federalist 78, written under the pen name Publius, which we now know was written by Alexander Hamilton, seeks to assure Americans that this new republican form of government (as Madison earlier described in Federalist 10), is the right government structure for America. The Judicial Branch, established under Article III of the Constitution, was a new but much needed concept in American government. The only real issue was related to the structure. In Federalist 51, Madison argued that the 3 Branches were coequal but it was important for each to remain independent of each other so no 2 Branches could conspire and take power from the 3rd Branch. So, this independent Judiciary would be a check on the powers of the Legislative and Executive Branches. But how? Hamilton argues the Judicial Branch is necessary to prevent Congress from passing laws that are unconstitutional. It would be their duty to have the entire government responsible to adhere to the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. In this manner, they are the watchdogs of Liberty. The position of the judiciary, then, helps to protect the People from having their Rights, as declared in the Constitution, from being violated by the Congress. How then would the courts do this? Hamilton argued that it was imperative that judges receive lifetime appointments, so long as they maintain “good behavior.” In doing so, it was argued that the courts could never be held accountable since they were not up for election, but Hamilton makes several persuasive arguments in counter to the objection. Hamilton argues that in order to maintain independence, the judiciary must avoid term limits as it would subject them to influence from factions. That this would free them from influence of the other 2 Branches and factions of the citizenry. Since the judiciary doesn’t control “purse” to finance or the “sword” to enact the laws, that it is actually the “least dangerous” of the Branches and therefore must have protections of a lifetime appointment. Hamilton writes, “the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The lifetime appointment also ensure continuity of the judiciary since it will enable the recruitment of the best legal minds and new judges will likely not have the body of knowledge as the longer tenured judges. While it may not have been his first priority, Federalist 78 is perhaps the greatest defense of “judicial review,” the concept that it is the power of the courts to review and determine if actions of the government violate the Constitution, thus, acting as a key check and balance. Today in America, where political “lawfare” runs rampant, the power of the Judicial Branch is on full display…and it mostly operates the way the Founding Fathers envisioned.

We The People The Federalist Papers: Federalist 51 It’s February of 1788 and the US Constitution is in draft form. The Framers are trying to convince States to ratify the new document. It’ll be another year before ratification occurs. There is a fierce debate on-going about a new structure of American government. The fight is whether America should have strong States Rights or whether America needs a stronger federal government. Federalist 51, written under the pen name Publius, which we now know was writing by James Madison, seeks to assure Americans that this new republican form of government (as he earlier described in Federalist 10), is the right government structure for America. He argues it has the right mix of power with the balance between States Rights and federal government oversight. Of course, Madison is a big proponent of power from the People and the nod to States Rights are important to him. This paper focuses the discussion on Checks and Balances. He explains that 3 co-equal branches of government would work to ensure no branch becomes too powerful and each branch will work to ensure power remains with the People. Of course, Madison was realist and understood people are fallible. He tells us, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” and as such, checks on the ambition of people to gain power are built into the structure. He then adds, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” Its that last part that Madison was concerned. None of the Framers intended there to be an all-powerful part of government but they understood the ambitions of people. For this new government to work, there had to be limits on the new federal government. By dividing the Legislative Branch into 2 separate chambers, each chamber would work to check the power of the other chamber. Having strong State governments would work to check the power of a federal government. Madison also states that the Branches of government should be divided so that members of one Branch should have no power to appoint members of another Branch. That each Branch should refrain from participating in the affairs of the other Branches. Without this explicit separation, one Branch might not feel completely independent and may become beholden to another Branch. The Anti-Federalist opposition argued the government structure out of concerns it placed too much power in the hands of the federal government. The were skeptical that one Branch could prevent the ambition for power of another Branch and it was more likely a group of Aristocrats would collude together to assume power. What wasn’t discussed in Federalist 51 was that one Branch, for political expediency, would abdicate their power in order for their political party in another Branch to become more powerful, nor, that the Judicial Branch appointments would become so political that the Judicial Branch would be more of a political activist than an arbiter of law. Madison did express these concerns later, in Federalist 78. In America today, these are bigger struggles than one Branch seeking more power at the expense of the others.

We The People The Federalist Papers: Federalist 39 It’s January of 1788 and the US Constitution is in draft form. The Framers are trying to convince States to ratify the new document. It’ll be another year before ratification occurs. There is a fierce debate on-going about a new structure of American government. The fight is whether America should have strong States Rights or whether America needs a stronger federal government. Federalist 39, written under the pen name Publius, which we now know was writing by James Madison, seeks to assure Americans that this new republican form of government, as he earlier described in Federalist 10) is the right government structure for America. He argues it has the right mix of power with the balance between States Rights and federal government oversight. Of course, Madison is a big proponent of power from the People and the nod to States Rights are important to him. Madison defines the republic, “If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.” He recommits to the new nation that electing Representatives directly ensure no “handful of nobles” could exercise their oppression of the People. Madison points the example that the House of Representative will be voted on by the People and that the Senators will be appointed by the States (of course, the 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, later changed this process so that Senators became elected by the People). “On comparing the Constitution planned by the convention with the standard here fixed, we perceive at once that it is, in the most rigid sense, conformable to it. The House of Representatives, like that of one branch at least of all the State legislatures, is elected immediately by the great body of the people. The Senate, like the present Congress, and the Senate of Maryland, derives its appointment indirectly from the people. The President is indirectly derived from the choice of the people, according to the example in most of the States.” Madison then repeats the term periods for each of the members of Congress and the President. This is important so that the People can be assured they get to choose whom to elect periodically. Of course, Publius’ opposition, Brutus and Cato, continued opposing the government structure out of concerns it placed too much power in the hands of the federal government. They were skeptical that the government would continue to share power and that the federal government would eventually take powers not enumerated to them in the Constitution. As in Federalist 10, we can ask the question, 240 years later, did Publius or Brutus have the better argument? Certainly, within the last 100 years, the American federal government has grown in ways the Founding Fathers never envisioned nor would’ve ever considered.

We The People The Federalist Papers: Federalist 10 It’s November of 1787 and the US Constitution is in draft form. The Framers are trying to convince states to ratify the new document. It’ll be another year before ratification occurs. There is a fierce debate on-going about a new structure of American government. The fight is whether America should have strong states Rights or whether America needs a stronger federal government. Factions In the on-going fight on how to structure the new American government, the concern has arisen about the best way to fight against “Factions” of government. Essentially, there is concern a government with stronger federal powers will give way to “factions” that will seek to give power to a majority. Factions, groups of people with similar interests in similar causes who would be adverse to the Rights of people with differing interests. Powerful factions are by nature oppressive and the debate centered on how best to control them. The author of Federalist 10, James Madison, under the pen name Publius, argues there are 2 ways to control factions: 1) remove it’s causes and 2) controlling its effects. Madison’s interpretation is that removing its causes is akin to destroying Liberty itself and it is difficult to control the effects unless you gave every citizen the same opinion. He famously writes in Federalist 10, “It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it is worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires." Of the second method for controlling factions, Madison writes it is best to control the effect and that having a larger republic will increase the number of factions make it less likely one faction will be able to control the government and impose its will. The size of the government will give more voices to differing opinions which will balance out debate, protect minority opinions and support the public good. “The second expedient is as impracticable, as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.” The Anti-Federalist response, written under the pen name Brutus, again calls for a smaller government which pushes Rights down to the states and People and a Bill of Rights ensuring free speech in which the minority can be heard. How is this practical in today’s political climate? Certainly, we see private groups who champion a single cause and attempt to lobby their representatives to implement their preferred policies. More recently, we’ve seen factions develop on the farther end of the political spectrum…some for purpose, some simply to push a narrative farther than the position of the majority of citizens with hopes of influencing the country’s position more toward the further extremes. But, ultimately, the question, 240 years later, is did Publius or Brutus have the better argument? In many ways, the American political system has not changed from how Publius and Brutus envisioned it would act, though in some ways, we see more calls from lawmakers to remove Rights of the people than at anytime over the 240 years since. Certainly, witin the last 100 years, the American federal government has grown in ways the Founding Fathers never envisioned nor would’ve ever considered. We’ll continue exploring some of the Federalist Paper writings in future posts and providing context to these quotes, the men and the times. In retrospect, it’s amazing how well the Framers understood men and how they anticipated potential problems, critical issues alive today, in American government.

We The People It’s November of 1787 and the US Constitution is in draft form. The Framers are trying to convince states to ratify the new document. It’ll be another year before ratification occurs. There is a fierce debate on-going about a new structure of American government. The fight is whether America should have strong states Rights or whether America needs a stronger federal government. Having just concluded a war for independence, George Washington is an advocate for a stronger federal government with increased powers to better manage war and commerce. States Rights advocates view a stronger federal government as a possible return to monarchy. America is fortunate to know a lot about the Framing and ratification of the US Constitution in March 1789. We know this information because the Framers were meticulous notetakers and, with great fortune, we have documents like The Federalist Papers (and Anti-Federalist Papers). The Federalist Papers are a collection of writings that appeared throughout New York newspapers between October of 1787 and May of 1788 with the intention of convincing New Yorkers to ratify the newly drafted US Constitution. It is a collection of 85 writings done by then unknown authors under the pen name Publius. Today, we now know the authors were Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The Papers are important because the writings provide contemporary discussion on a document that is now nearly 240 years old. They help us to interpret what the Framers were thinking and even how some of the language of the Constitution was purposefully changed to address controversial issues. They provide great insight into issues arising between The Federalists (those that argued for ratification of the Constitution with a stronger federal government) and The Anti-Federalists (those arguing for more States rights) who feared the Constitution gave too much power to a federal government and the new President too closely resembled a tyrannical King. The near future will bring a compromise. Ratification of the new Constitution is possible, so long as it includes a promise to secure a Bill of Rights expressly stating the Rights of We The People over this new government. Not to be outdone, the Anti-Federalists created a collection of writings, also written under pen names by various authors. The Federalist Papers also provide some of the great quotes related to this new form of government: In Federalist 51, Madison gives us 2 great quotes. First, he tells us “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Secondly, he adds “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” In Federalist 22, Hamilton tells us “The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid bases of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.” In Federalist 45, Madison tells us “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those that are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” In Federalist 10, Madison, when discussing radical factions of governments, tells us “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed." We’ll be exploring some of the Federalist Paper writings in future posts and providing context to these quotes, the men and the times. In retrospect, it’s amazing how well the Framers understood men and how they anticipated potential problems, critical issues alive today, in American government. guides.loc.gov/federalist-pa…

North Carolina Sheriff Wright message to the White House: “If you’re going to do the things you’ve been talking about doing, we just say, ‘Stay out of the way and let the good men and women around the mountain area in the foothills take care of our own, because you are nothing more than a boat anchor.’” 🎥 @SaraCarterDC

This is incredibly graphic and hard to read… but we can’t look away. newsweek.com/i-saw-children-…

June 7: FBI releases documents to Congress alleging the Bidens took a $10M bribe from Burisma. June 8: Jack Smith indicts Trump in Mar-a-Lago docs case. July 26: Hunter Biden goes to court and rejects sweetheart plea deal after it was revealed DOJ tried to give him blanket immunity from future prosecutions. July 27: Jack Smith adds more charges for Trump in the Mar-a-lago case. July 31: Hunter Biden's former business partner testifies to Congress that Joe Biden was on over 20 calls with his son's business partners and that Burisma execs pressured them to fire the prosecutor August 1: Jack Smith indicts Trump again for January 6.