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Impeachment: All you need to know (and you do need to know it)

1. It is NOT necessary that the President, other officers in the executive branch, or federal judges commit a crime before they may be impeached & removed from office. Federalist Paper No. 66 (2nd para) & Federalist No.…

Restore the Constitution by Learning What It Means

Our Constitution really was a 5000 Year Miracle. The following chart illustrates the Miracle. You can download and print out the chart by clicking here for a PDF copy. Rights come from God, and the purpose of civil…

Mark Levin Refuted – Keep the Feds in Check with Nullification, Not Amendments

What Mark Levin says in “The Liberty Amendments” in support of an Article V convention is not true.1 On one side of this controversy are those who want to restore our Constitution by requiring federal and State officials…

What Criminal Laws are Congress Authorized to Make?

1. The Constitution grants to Congress only limited powers to make criminal laws. These powers fall into five categories: a) those made pursuant to express authorizations for four specific crimes; b) those made under the “necessary and proper” clause; c) those made…

The Development of Article V, U.S. Constitution, at the Federal Convention of 1787

Page numbers refer to the hard bound ed. of the Journal of the Federal Convention Kept by James Madison (ed. by E.H. Scott; R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., Chicago, 1893).  Hyperlinks to an online edition are also…

The “Convention of States” Scam, the War over the Constitution, and how the States Sold the Reserved Powers to the Feds

[two_third]Our Constitution is a glorious document. This one page chart depicts the Structure of the federal government we created when we ratified our Constitution; and lists the “limited & enumerated powers” we delegated to the federal government over…

Will Congress Stop the Obama Administration from Disarming our Military Veterans?

We just celebrated Independence Day last week.  From that initial struggle against the British to the present day, we have honored our military veterans for their courageous sacrifice in helping keep us free. Sadly, many of these veterans…