General Welfare, James Madison, and the 1817 Bonus Bill Veto
By Douglas V. Gibbs On March 3, 1817, John C. Calhoun and a handful of other Republican congressmen climbed the...
To Secure Natural Rights
By Douglas V. Gibbs A car seat does not protect a child. That is not its job. Its job is...
Hamilton’s Debt, and Today’s National Debt
By Douglas V. Gibbs A listener to the Saturday Constitution Radio program wrote to me about a video that “talks...
Are We On The Verge Of A Leftist Revolution?
By Douglas V. Gibbs France is burning again, and this time nobody is pretending it is about an eighteenth century...
The Mid‑Term Elections Are A Constitutional Reckoning
By Douglas V. Gibbs Rahm Emanuel said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” The plan is to create “crisis,”...
Friday LIVE: U.S. Senate, Congressional Procedures
Patriots’ SoapboxPresentsDouglas V. Gibbs Mr. Constitution’s Navigation 2 Liberty Constitution Classes. LIVE Friday: 2-4 Pacific/5-7 Eastern(Join us live and log...
Nationalism versus Federalism
By Douglas V. Gibbs In today’s vernacular, it seems we have a problem with words. The enemies of liberty have...
How Great Thou Art…Regarding the Founding of America and Her Demise
By Douglas V. Gibbs Are we built on the rock or, the sand? The Founding Fathers understood through their own...
The Constitutional Antidote to Human Nature
By Douglas V. Gibbs In recent conversations with fellow conservatives, I’ve encountered a troubling sentiment: a growing willingness to abandon...
Originalist Case Against McCulloch v. Maryland: How Implied Powers Shattered the Constitutional Republic
By Douglas V. Gibbs The 1819 Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland came up in a conversation, recently, with...