Does Diversity Really Unite Us? Citizenship and Immigration
Historically, constitutional government has been found only in the nation-state, where the people share a common good and are dedicated to the same principles and purposes.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | July/August 2018
Historically, constitutional government has been found only in the nation-state, where the people share a common good and are dedicated to the same principles and purposes.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | October 2016
It is not beyond reason that a sovereign nation would be allowed to inquire whether the religious beliefs of an asylum seeker are compatible with the American constitutional order.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | March 2013
Second Amendment supporters, one prominent but less than articulate member of Congress alleges, have become “enablers of mass murder.”
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | November 2012
The Constitution states that “We the people…do ordain and establish…this Constitution,” not that the Constitution creates the people.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | September 2011
A political party dedicated to genuinely limited government—not small government—is an urgent political task.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | July 2008
Citizenship does not exist by nature; it is created by law, and the identification of citizens has always been considered an aspect of sovereignty.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | September 2003
The Fourteenth Amendment cannot properly be understood except in terms of the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Read MoreEdward J. Erler | April 2002
James Madison wrote that the natural right to property was the most comprehensive of all the natural rights that provided reservations against government.
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