Congressional Testimony – What Is the Re-Empowerment of the States Amendment? On November 16th, Foundations of Liberty Board Member, W. David Hemingway, testified before a congressional subcommittee on possible answers to states’ rights through the Re-Empowerment of the States Amendment to the Constitution. Below is the testimony presented to the committee. The several States may repeal, in […]
Author: Bob Bartleson
Liberals Like Cory Booker Talk Fairness But Practice Tyranny
Regardless of the socialistic views of Cory Booker, and other liberals, America is a Republic, pure and simple. Democracies are too burdensome and slow to accomplish all America has attained in 230 years—not to mention that mob rule (the reality of democracy) is too unstable to last even half that time! Foundations of Liberty will […]
Presidential Executive Order Tyranny
Can A President Turn The U.S. Into A Dictatorship Through Executive Order? Over the course of 8 months in 1962, President John Kennedy signed a number of Executive Orders which gave certain dictatorial powers to appointed bureaucrats in the event a “National Emergency” should be declared by the President. At whichever seated president’s discretion “in […]
NDAA 2012 Abolishes Civil Liberties
Congress and Obama Ignore Constitution With NDAA 2012 Obama, the biggest critic of Bush’s violation of civil liberties for prisoners of war (POWs), signed legislation removing the constitutional protections of civil liberties for all Americans—not just POWs—on December 31st 2011. Worse yet, both Democrats and Republicans combined to overwhelmingly pass the legislation with 322 to […]