No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of governmental power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.
--Edmund A. Opitz, The Freeman [March 1965]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
July 7, 2020 Weak Libertarian Solutions to America's Healthcare Crisis Ever since the start of the coronavirus crisis, a number of libertarians have taken the position that President Trump and federal officials have mismanaged the crisis. They point out all the things that Trump and federal officials have done wrong ...
Ad Hominems Against Freedom
by Richard M. Ebeling
Statues are historical symbols of people and events from the past, and as such they reflect the heritage and values of a country. In the heightened current racial tensions ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 2
by Danny Sjursen
The Constitution was, and is, emphatic on one matter, at least: only Congress possesses the power to declare war. In the 1840s, an era of legislative preeminence, even the high-risk ...
Democrats, Republicans, and the Constitution
by Laurence M. Vance
In July 2017, after President Donald Trump had been in office for less than six months, Congressmen Al Green (D-Calif.) and Brad Sherman (D-Tex.) ...
