From the start of his term, President Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to destroy his political enemies. As a result, American families and whole communities have been ruined—and the Constitution laid to waste. Standing proudly amid the wreckage is U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, and in the wings is Jack Smith, special counsel appointed…

From the start of his term, President Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to destroy his political enemies. As a result, American families and whole communities have been ruined—and the Constitution laid to waste. Standing proudly amid the wreckage is U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, and in the wings is Jack Smith, special counsel appointed…

From the start of his term, President Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to destroy his political enemies. As a result, American families and whole communities have been ruined—and the Constitution laid to waste. Standing proudly amid the wreckage is U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, and in the wings is Jack Smith, special counsel appointed…

Who’s that at the door? An Amazon deliveryman? A Girl Scout selling a fresh batch of oatmeal cookies? No, it’s a couple of agents from what used to be one of America’s most storied institutions, the FBI. They’re here to police your First Amendment rights. In this shocking new episode of Over the Target, Brendon…

Who’s that at the door? An Amazon deliveryman? A Girl Scout selling a fresh batch of oatmeal cookies? No, it’s a couple of agents from what used to be one of America’s most storied institutions, the FBI. They’re here to police your First Amendment rights. In this shocking new episode of Over the Target, Brendon…

Commentary As you may know, the primary “constitutional” justification for our out-of-control administrative state is a grossly bloated version of the Constitution’s Commerce Power. In a case pending before the Supreme Court, apologists for centralized authority want the justices to expand that power even more. I have just researched and written a scholarly article (pdf)…

Self-governing citizens in a free republic need to know the structure of their government and the content of its principal laws. For Americans, that requires a basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. Ideally, we should acquire this information in school, so as adults we need only burnish it from time to time. However, modern Americans…

One way that some writers try to discredit the U.S. Constitution is to assert that the document’s original meaning discriminated against women. Thus, a 2011 Time Magazine cover story claimed that “the [Constitution’s] framers … gave us the idea … that women were not allowed to vote.” An Oct. 13, 2020, article in The Hill…

When arguing that the Constitution stems from, and continues to reflect, “systemic racism,” critics point to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3—the “three-fifths compromise.”  They do so even though the three-fifths compromise was amended out of the document more than 150 years ago. By way of illustration, a 2011 Time magazine cover story asserted, “The…

This essay addresses one of the most persistent criticisms of the Constitution: that it was adopted to protect, or least accommodate, slavery. As explained below, that criticism is historically false. The Critics’ Deceptive Statistic The critics point out that perhaps 25 of the Constitution’s 55 framers (drafters) were slaveholders. But this statistic is deceptive. One…