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The Role of Government: A Fourteen-year Olds Response to What is and What Appears to Be  by Jake MacAulay Today I had the privilege of speaking at another Institute on the Constitution American Club where I graduated a host of young people from our U.S. Constitution Course!  These clubs are comprised of young people who desire to learn and live the Biblical, American View of Law and Government.   During this presentation I asked the question, “Is abortion legal in America?”  

The Key to American Greatness – Family Education by Jake MacAulay This past weekend I had the tremendous opportunity to speak and participate in a region wide homeschool convention in my home state of Minnesota.  As I traveled to this convention, I pondered my own primary education and how drastically different my private and public education was.  I never sensed being coerced, even when the crazy, mad biologist tried to tell me we evolved from fish; and we were never taught

Democracy Is No “Trump” To The Delegate Process by Jake MacAulay   Does it drive you crazy when you hear politicians and talking heads refer to America as a “democracy”? If it does, I sympathize with you. And so do America’s founders.   Here’s what James Madison, our fourth President and the man they call the “Father of the Constitution,” had to say about democracies:   Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with

Sotomayor’s Proposed Multiculturalism, a Good Thing or Bad Thing? by Jake MacAulay During a recent talk at Brooklyn Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed, “It is important that we have greater diversity on the Supreme Court” and, “I, for one, do think there is a disadvantage from having (five) Catholics, three Jews, every one from an Ivy League school.” Sotomayor is both a Catholic and an Ivy League school graduate. With regards to her reference of

Clinton’s “Person” May Die Because of Their Mother by Jake MacAulay Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning. During the interview, host Chuck Todd pressed Clinton on the topic of abortion.   “When, or if, does an unborn child have constitutional rights?” Todd asked.   The aspiring presidential candidate said that the rights outlined in the U.S. Constitution are not applicable to unborn children. Was Hillary invoking

Men Invading Women’s Bathrooms by Jake MacAulay The mayor of San Francisco has banned all publicly-funded city employees from traveling to North Carolina.   The NBA is threatening to relocate next year’s All Star game from Charlotte, North Carolina, to another city.   Corporate giants like American Airlines and Hollywood giants like Disney are threatening action against North Carolina.   You may be asking yourself why?   Has North Carolina started a coalition that is denyin

Can Senate Reject Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Garland? by Jake MacAulay Can and should the Senate reject Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland?   In the words and overtone of Vice-President Joe Biden, the Senate can and should refuse this nominee.  In a  speech on the Senate floor  in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there can and should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an electio

Government Transgender Public Schools by Jake MacAulay   President Barack Hussein Obama issued an order to public schools Friday morning that they must allow transgender students to use whichever restrooms correspond with their gender identity, regardless of their biological sex.   My response: “Who cares!?!”   Well, Jake, that is rather flippant; this will potentially affect millions of families across America!   “It can’t!”   Imagine you are at a baseball game and it is bo

Alabama’s Full Faith and Credit in Law not Obergefell. by Jake MacAulay Faced with the impossibility of consummating and thereby conceiving children, two women living as a couple in Alabama set up a second residence in Georgia where lesbians are allowed to adopt children.  These children were conceived in one of the lesbians by insemination from an anonymous male donor.   Later in 2011, the two women split up, and the non-parent lesbian (V.L.) sued in an Alabama state court,

Apple – FBI – and a New Slavery by Jake MacAulay I was recently on a speaking tour in the Dakotas and was asked the question, “What relevance does the FBI/Apple issue have with the Fourth Amendment?”   As I attempt and answer, keep in mind I rely on my iPhone for my Constitutional work all over the country and I am currently using it now if you are watching my video column this week.   The Fourth Amendment clearly defines individual privacy limits on the government, stating t

Bernie Sanders, the “Legal” Criminal by Jake MacAulay Imagine you and I are strolling down the street one fine day on our way to have a nice lunch and we come across a woman who is truly destitute.  She needs many things including food to feed her baby.  Imagine also that you just cashed a check and you know, and I know, that you have $200.00 in your pocket.   Now imagine that I decide that you should give the $200.00 dollars to the woman. (Remember, she is truly needy.)  So

Scalia and What the Supreme Court is Not by Jake MacAulay With the recent passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, America is truly bereaved of one of her greatest defenders of justice.    Justice Scalia was a historic jurist, an exceptional legal scholar, and a stalwart defender of the Constitution as it was written by our founders.   The “crisis” being spoken of now is who will the next Supreme Court Justice be, and if he isn’t nominated by a Republican, will that sabotage Americ