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17 hours ago ago from American History From About

Search American History Home Education American History Email American History Wars & Events People Eras Free American History Newsletter! Sign Up Discuss in my Forum U.S. Constitution By Martin Kelly , About.com Guide See More About: american constitution amendments bill of rights james madison great compromise Nickname: Bundle of Compromises Chief Draftsmen of the U.S. Constitution: James ...

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Limiting federal authority

6 hours ago ago from The Atheist Conservative

Here, from the Wall Street Journal, is an article endorsing the idea quoted in the post below ( Have they won? ), that the states should curb the powers of the federal government; but setting out a more reasoned argument for how it might be done, by constitutional amendment. For nearly a hundred years, federal power has expanded at the expense of the states—to a point where the even the wages and hours of state employees are subject to ...

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Leftists Don’t Care What the Constitution Says

12 hours ago ago from NewsReal Blog

Liberals have long viewed the Constitution as a quaint anachronism to be overcome. Now that they're in power in Washington, they're trying to do an end run around it. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, says the left-wing Big Government crowd in Washington doesn't recognize the limitations on the government's powers that are provided for in the Constitution. They view this as a grant of the ...

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Can the states check Washington’s power?

7 hours ago ago from Slavens Says

David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey wrote an interesting opinion piece that appears in today's Wall Street Journal. In The States Can Check Washington's Power they suggest that two-thirds of the states should be able to propose constitutional amendments directly. The two attorneys make a strong case, accurately describing the current federal government's expanding power, which is contrary to the intentions of the Framers. James Madison ...

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