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Opinion: Capt. Kirk Was Right -- Read the Constitution

It's been amusing to read the reaction in some quarters to the House Republicans' decision to read the entire U.S. Constitution at the start of the new Congress. Last week, Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein called it a "gimmick." Post blogger Greg Sargent added his two cents, calling it "a cheap way of...

Bachmann Caucus to Start Offering Classes

WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) -- Is Glenn Beck University opening a satellite campus on Capitol Hill? If tea party darling Michele Bachmann gets her way, conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano and David Barton, a Christian evangelist who has said church-state separation is "a myth," will make up...

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Calif. Video Game Law

(Nov. 2) -- Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today questioned the legality of a California law that seeks to control the sale of violent video games. The justices invoked James Madison, 1990s video game "Mortal Kombat" and the Grimm brothers' fairy tales as they heard arguments from the state of California and...

Opinion: Health Care Suit Tests Basic Principles

(Sept. 14) -- As arguments begin Tuesday in a Florida District Court where 20 state attorneys general and the National Federation of Independent Business are challenging the constitutionality of the health care law, the American people can be forgiven for feeling a bit ill at ease about the direction their country is...

Opinion: The Tyranny of the Majority

(Aug. 17) -- In the two most frequently and passionately debated political issues of the past few weeks -- the rejection of California's Proposition 8 and the planned mosque and cultural center in lower Manhattan -- there is a common thread: claims by those in disagreement that those decisions are counter to the will of...

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James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 (O.S. March 5) – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and political theorist, the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817).

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