Tenth Amendment

How The West And The Constitution Were Lost, And Why You Should Care – Part II

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Using this, it would be easy to make the case that the Bureau of Land Manglement actually is an unconstitutional use of a congressional power to make rules and regulations over territories. The only thing they could do would be to carry out a specific rule or regulation that Congress itself had made. In other words, the BLM can’t come in and write its own […]

May 1, 2014 5

Transcripts

How The West And The Constitution Were Lost, And Why You Should Care – Part I

Now, does that mean that a state, if it wanted to, that they couldn’t exercise the power and create a state park? No. This is the problem here. A state obviously reserved that power.

April 18, 2014 3

Transcripts

Yankee Caller Says No One Can Leave This Perpetual Union Of Indivisible States

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Here’s another great little historical inconvenience, Frank. Pennsylvania was also part of a perpetual union according to the Articles of Confederation. You have been living in this union in violation of your own theory, according to the act ratified in November of 1781 called the Articles of Confederation. How does that taste in your pipe? Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

November 21, 2013 10

Transcripts

Interview With Jeff Taylor On His Book “Politics On A Human Scale: The American Tradition Of Decentralism”

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a new book out called Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism. It’s published by Lexington Books. Dr. Jeff Taylor is the author. I read part of this essay to you last week and I’ve referred to it a couple other times last week. Dr. Taylor is on the Dude Maker Hotline, making his first visit here. Dr. Jeff Taylor, […]

November 19, 2013 5

Interviews

Interview With Kevin Gutzman On Obamacare

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Yesterday, I’m sure you have seen some or all of the president’s wielding of his scepter at his press conference yesterday, asserting he was granting all these insurers and the states this power to alter their plans and basically I guess to ignore what is actually in the Affordable Care Act. I asked you in an email exchange: Is there any precedent for this? […]

November 15, 2013 9

Interviews

Interview With Kevin Gutzman On Gay Marriage, DOMA, Prop. 8, And Immigration

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – To the Dude Maker Hotline, my friend and yours, Dr. Professor Kevin Gutzman, author of James Madison and the Making of America, author of Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, and co-author of Who Killed the Constitution? on the Dude Maker Hotline on a Monday. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

July 1, 2013 7

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If It Was Not Granted Then it Was Reserved – Why The Lincolnistas Are Wrong

Mandeville, LA - Noah Millman posts at the American Conservative Magazine in part: "If the secessionist cause is to be justified in the Declaration’s terms, it must make one of two claims. Either there are no “political bands” of note to dissolve – the Union is a mere compact among sovereign entities, that any party may depart from at will. Or, if those bands are granted to exist, the election […]

August 20, 2012 8