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Category: Constitution
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By Selwyn Duke One of the nation-shattering issues hardly ever discussed, distracted as we are with frivolity, is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This is the state-led scheme to circumvent the Electoral College and force presidential elections to be decided by popular vote. It’s dangerous not just because it would essentially enable densely…
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By Selwyn Duke “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every…
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By Selwyn Duke What do you do when the people elect a sheriff you don’t like? What’s your recourse when that lawman won’t push the “woke” agenda? If you’re like Washington state’s Democrats, who control the government, you’ll seek veto power over the people’s will. The current target of these politicians’ ire is Sheriff Keith…
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By Selwyn Duke Early in my commentary career, I found myself debating the meaning of one of my articles in an online chat with a woman who’d read the piece. Why the argument? Well, I was mischievous, I’ll confess, and, having a little fun, didn’t tell her I was the author. Towards our interaction’s conclusion…
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By Selwyn Duke As with representative government, the “rule of law” has been an anomaly on the world scene, historically speaking. The Romans had it; in fact, they essentially gave us the concept of the rule of law. It is the norm today, too, in the lands they most influenced, those of the modern West.…
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By Selwyn Duke “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion,” observed G.K. Chesterton in 1935. “In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” This could come to mind hearing about yet another “separation of church and state” lawsuit. This time the issue involves Catholic…
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By Selwyn Duke It has essentially been said that you can have a living Constitution or a surviving Republic. But you can’t have both. And, a University of Tennessee civics expert states in so many words, today’s Supreme Court will increasingly choose civilizational survival. This means that a majority of the Court rejects the “living…
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By Selwyn Duke We don’t know if Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is disabled as a jurist, but she certainly has made it onto the Supreme Court. She apparently, though, believes that black Americans are essentially “disabled” within the context of our American system. In fact, she just said as much Wednesday during oral arguments in…
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