Articles with constitutionality

The Moral of the Nuremberg Trials

Comply With Unlawful Orders at Your Own Peril It may well be that the major moral of the post-World War II trials in Nuremberg, Germany is that one complies with unlawful orders at his or…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on November 24, 2020January 19, 2021

HR 838 The Beginning of the Thought Police

C’mon, this is 2020 not 1984Or, And you want more unaccountable bureaucracy? One of the founding principles in English law is that one actually has to break some statute to be guilty of law-breaking (Oh,…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on May 13, 2020May 23, 2020

The Curse of the Lemming

Lessons From Nuremberg The end of World War II saw a theretofore unprecedented event: criminal trials levied against the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and others who committed heinous atrocities against human beings. The upshot of…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on May 4, 2020May 23, 2020

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1812-1845
(Youngest Justice [age 32] ever appointed to Supreme Court)

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. . . . There is certainly no small danger, that indifference [to the right to keep and bear arms] may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”

Liberty Letters, 1833