Category Archives: Constitution

Natural Born Citizen Clause & National Security

Christina Jeffery Ph.D., former U.S. House Historian, University Professor and Madison Forum Member, was the guest speaker at our Breakfast Meeting Saturday, March 30th at the “Come-N-Get It” Family Restaurant, 1409 Church Street Extension, Suite E, Marietta, Georgia 30060.

PART 1: Christina spoke on the topic of “The Natural Born Citizen Clause and National Security.”

PART 2: Q&A Session after Christina Jeffrey’s speech to the Madison Forum on “The Natural … Read more...

Dangers of An Article V Convention

On March 30, Publius Huldah, Madison Forum member, presented the dangers of an Article V Convention. The event was hosted by the Acworth JBS and sponsored by the Madison Forum and Georgia Republican Assembly.

Publius provided the following handout sheets so that citizens can get a solid understanding of what an Article V Convention is and what it could mean for the future of our nation.

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Who needs Congress for gun control?

Former Congressman, Bob Barr, recently spoke to the Madison Forum on how administrations, especially the Obama Administration, use federal agencies and other stealth methods to enact gun controls without going through Congress and the legislative process. He outlined, in depth, ten ways the Obama Administration has used since taking office. Some of them may surprise you.

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The Merging of the Constitutions – Part I

My following column appeared on April 5, 1996 in the Cobb Chronicle. It is always worthwhile to check on where we are to determine if we are following the map for our ship of state. This is the first of a two part series on this subject.

By
Michael S. Opitz

The United States Supreme Court, in its historic 1964 decision, ruled that prayer in public schools is illegal because … Read more...

Full House at Constitutional Convention Debate

Last Wednesday, Cherokee Cattle Company and Jack Staver and friends welcomed a full house of people to participate in a debate on whether or not a Constitutional Convention would be good for our country. Lance Lamberton of Cobb Taxpayers Association defended a pro-Con Con position, while Publius Huldah, a retired lawyer, stood firmly against it. After their opening statements, the audience was welcomed to question Lance and Publius directly. The … Read more...

The Cost of “Free”

By Les Dunaway

If any of you needed more motivation to work hard on electing solid fiscal conservatives in 2014 & 2016, here’s some numbers.

Writing on zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden, “Entitlement America And The High Cost Of “Free”” lays out the statistics and the human cost of the entitlement society.

 The political allure of free is so strong that an alarming number of people choose to become wards of the Read more...

“A little rebellion”

By Les Dunaway

Our elected representatives have, lately (and way past time) been criticized for writing laws that both did not and could not address the problem for which they were written and, at the same time, created yet more problems.

I am altogether confident that part of the problem is that of our representatives being less competent at fulfilling the duties of their office than at convincing their constituents … Read more...

Ignorant does not equal stupid

By: Les Dunaway

For the past year or more, I’ve been struggling with the fact that many people believe that social programs can be expanded without limit because taxes can be raised, without limit, to support them. The question I keep asking myself and everyone who’ll talk about it is “How can we help these people to understand that simple arithmetic demonstrates the fallacy of their belief?”

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Obamacare ruling – Roberts said more than’s been reported

By: Les Dunaway

There was great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Supreme Court’s decision “upholding” Obamacare { Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act} in

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ET AL

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SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL.

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Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, in the majority opinion, what can, arguably, be called the most convoluted decision in the history of the … Read more...