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Defending the Bill of Rights

Dear Friends, The Bill of Rights is a shield to guard the people – individuals – against the power, overreach, and abuse of government itself. The freedom of speech, assembly and religion, the right to a speedy trial by a jury of your peers, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure, and […]

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Happy Constitution Day!

Celebrating the 237th Birthday of the World’s Oldest Constitution “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, because if the American Constitution should fail, there will be […]

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Here’s the Plan!

A Five-step Plan for Restoring Constitutional Government: 1. No bill to exceed 10 pages 2. All bills to be accompanied by the constitutional article authorizing said bill. 3. No content in the bill that does not pertain to the title of the bill. 4. All bills are to be written in layman’s terms and posted […]

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Is This Treason?

U.S. Constitution – Article 1 Section 10: Powers Prohibited of States “No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation….” Treaty – “ratified agreement between two or more nations or sovereigns; a contract between two or more countries that is adhered to by the nations party to it; an international agreement between two or […]

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What Were the Constitutional Election DAY Results on November 4, 2020?

Three years have passed since the unconstitutional 2020 Presidential Election, when numerous states unlawfully counted ballots and chose their electors after Election Day. The courts still have not remedied this illegal election outcome. Americans should be seeking to conduct constitutional elections, instead of “convenience” elections. Practices such as mail-in ballots (which are completed before and […]

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Government is designed to answer to the people

After three weeks of deliberation, negotiation, and nominations, in which conservative and moderate candidates were elevated and then rejected, every House Republican voted to elect Mike Johnson of Louisiana as the 56th Speaker of the House on Wednesday afternoon. This is what our republican system of government is supposed to look like. The American people […]

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John Livingston

Look at me — Both Ways!

Our Founding Fathers never anticipated political parties or the influence that special interests and lobbyists would have on the political process. Governance, the bureaucratic State evolving into an administrative deep state answerable only to an elite ruling class were afterthoughts. Our Founding Fathers weren’t naive, and they understood very clearly the fallen nature of man […]

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Bob's Words of Wisdom

Understanding our Constitution

In Recognition of Constitution Day, September 17th Each year on September 17th, we celebrate Constitution Day, which commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution, one of the most important documents in our history. It is unfortunate that in today’s world, most Americans don’t understand or appreciate the significance of this document. They neither understand what […]

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COS: The Constitution Undone

There are numerous problems with our country and how the government runs today which need fixing. At the federal level, in particular, many problems are most easily recognized. What to do to fix D.C. are various and wide ranging. Here, I wish to address the idea of an Article V convention of the state’s idea […]

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Say ye not ‘A confederacy…’

“Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.” I’ve been under the impression that both of our modern political parties were rotten, particularly at the nation level and probably to the core. At the same time I haven’t quite known what to make of what […]

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Does America Really Need a Constitutional Convention of States?

What is wrong with our Constitution? Absolutely Nothing! There is nothing wrong with our Constitution but there is something wrong with the people we have elected to enforce its rules. Here is an example of why our country is in deep trouble. This is a recent quote from our President ‘More than half the women […]

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Origins of the Constitution

Have We Lost the Source of Truth? I have seen a number of articles and essays that tell us that our Constitution had its origins from Cicero, Plato and other thinkers and rulers of the Greek and Roman period. They add the thinking of the “enlightenment period” of the eighteenth century that provided the wisdom […]

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