Constitution at Troynovant:
structures of American founding documents:
Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution;
debates on constitutionality;
listed by Title

See Law at Troynovant for legal institutions and matters less specifically related to American constitutional structure.

As the Declaration of Independence is America's definitional document, so the United States Constitution provides the structural framework for its core political institutions.

You, I, each one of us, is a minority of one. The Constitution, by limiting the trespass of institutions upon individuals, defends our natural right as rational, social individuals to live in harmonious society.

I want you to protect the Constitution. Learn, and stand up.

Robert Wilfred Franson

  
Banners for Constitutionalists
  from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook
RW Franson
Basic Concepts of Government
  Rights, Federalism, and the Constitutional Republic
Publius-Huldah

Conflict of Visions, A
  Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Thomas Sowell SE Jordan
Constitution of the United States WH Stoddard

Declaration of Independence & Constitution DH Franson

Five Thousand Year Leap, The
  The 28 Great Ideas
  That Changed the World
W. Cleon Skousen SE Jordan

Going Rogue
  An American Life
Sarah Palin RW Franson

How to Recreate a Constitution
  From Amending Principles to Doing Without
SE Jordan

Lincoln at Cooper Union
  The Speech That Made
  Abraham Lincoln President
Harold Holzer RW Franson

Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy Paul A. Rahe (editor) RW Franson
Men in Black
  How the Supreme Court
  Is Destroying America
Mark R. Levin RW Franson
My Grandfather's Son
  A Memoir
Clarence Thomas RW Franson

New Thought Police, The
  Inside the Left's Assault on
  Free Speech and Free Minds
Tammy Bruce RW Franson

Reagan, In His Own Hand Ronald Reagan RW Franson

Stealing Elections
  How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
John Fund RW Franson

We Still Hold These Truths
  Rediscovering Our Principles,
  Reclaiming Our Future
Matthew Spalding SE Jordan
What Is America? WH Stoddard
Writings George Washington RW Franson
  

  
[Belmont.]

Portia:

Some dear friend dead, else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man.

William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, 3.2.244-246

  


  
The Volokh Conspiracy
news and discussion of Constitutional Law
and other rights & legalities

Enstrom Foundation
Liberate Public Schools from Government by Lawsuit:
the 17-year pro bono defense of
students' & parents' Constitutional rights
  

  
Utopias at Troynovant
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Smart Girl Politics
is ramping up their
National Voter Registration Drive
  


  
We may find it illuminating to think of the United States Constitution not quite as the inspired grantor of American Exceptionalism, but as its early intellectual expression and beleaguered but ongoing practical catalyst. The Ship of State is not a perpetual-motion machine. Here's a fictional illustration.

Captain of salvage spaceship:

Right. Your mechanical trouble. Compression coil, you say?

Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of disabled Serenity:

It was the catalyzer.

Captain of salvage spaceship:

Not even the coil? Catalyzer's a nothing part, Captain.

Malcolm Reynolds:

It's nothing til you don't got one. Then it appears to be everything.
  
Out of Gas written by Tim Minear,
episode 8 of Firefly created by Joss Whedon

"Out of Gas" shooting script in
Firefly: The Official Companion, Volume Two
  


 

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