constitution

How Does a Corroded Democracy, Like Ours, Get Cleaned Up and Working Properly Again?

July 9, 2017 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

In the slave-state of ancient Athens if you were an enfranchised free male (but not a woman, foreigner, or slave) and didn’t participate in the democratic process you were called an idiot. If you didn’t want to go to the Assembly where self-governing decisions were made by direct, simple majority vote, something like a sergeant-at-arms […]

Presidential Hate Speech: A Veiled Threat of Violence?

February 27, 2017 By V.B. Price 87 Comments

The President, at a talk recently, exercised his constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech by calling the “media” the “enemy of the people.” Using the word “enemy” to describe a vast, constitutionally protected profession caused many worrying questions. It prompted retired Navy Adm. William McRaven, a former Navy SEAL and head of Special Operations Command, to […]