Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
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