1. Reining In an Out-of-Control Executive
(Newsletter)

...equal branches of government to check and balance each other so no one branch would become all powerful. Indeed, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers,.. FULL STORY...    Portugal l...

2. Terrorism Is a Crime
(Opinions/op-ed)

... open to violations of domestic liberty. “No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare,” James Madison said. The Obama administration’s early signals on these matters have not...

3. Oaths, War, And Liberty
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...ehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. --James Madison ************************* "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It ...

4. Inside America's Germ Warfare City
(Opinions/Interview)

...y the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious." And while we are at it, let's also heed James Madison, the primary author of our Constitution: "The means of defense again...

5. Yes We Can Unpardon War Criminals
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...such pardons ignores a thousand year tradition in which no man can sit in judgment of himself, and the fact that James Madison and George Mason argued that the reason we needed the impeachment power w...

6. As Congress Lay Dying
(Opinions/Politic)

...e nail remains to be hammered home, and we may never again hear from the first branch of our late republic. Both James Madison and George Mason wanted the impeachment power placed in the Constitution ...

7. Widespread Concerns Bush May Pardon Subordinates
(Editor/Letters)

...such pardons ignores a thousand year tradition in which no man can sit in judgment of himself, and the fact that James Madison and George Mason argued that the reason we needed the impeachment power w...

8. Noam Chomsky on the '08 Election
(Opinions/Features)

... was on a democratic theory and he was pretty frank about it. If you took a position not all that different from James Madison’s. He said that in a democracy, the population has a function. Its functi...

9. Torture Supporter Dershowitz Says Not to Prosecute Bush, Cheney, et alia
(Editor/Daily)

... The investigation didn't target Libby. Libby obstructed the investigation. And Bush commuted his sentence. Both James Madison and George Mason believed we needed impeachment for just such an abuse of...

10. President's Job Is to Pardon
(Opinions/Politic)

...g - yes - crushing children's testicles or (should it develop any) Congress's. At the Constitutional Convention, James Madison and George Mason both argued that impeachment would be the response if a ...