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 […]
Category: Federal Overreach
The Need To Restrain Government
Financial weakness is clearly cyclicle in countries that fail to restrain government encroachment into the economy. Fast growth in government spending discourages private-sector investment and hiring because it means higher future taxes. The result is a financial spiral in which businesses grow less and pay less to their governments. This worsens the fiscal crisis and […]
Stop Hidden Medicare Subsidy Paid By Every American
Your act of protest can help fix the broken health-care system and improve Medicare billing. America is in denial about the depth and breadth of the problems with its health-care system. While there is much discussion of rescinding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), there is nothing being discussed as a substitute that begins to address […]
Court Review of NDAA
Supreme Court Review of NDAA WASHINGTON, D.C. — In refusing to hear a legal challenge to the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), the United States Supreme Court has affirmed that the President and the U.S. military can arrest and indefinitely detain individuals, including American citizens. By denying without […]
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 […]