In the video above, the Preamble of the U.S Constitution being read to police at Occupy DC started by Catholic University of America Young Americans for Liberty. You can see Joey Hughes (Vice President) and Byron Sanford (Activist Director) in the back as I, Daniel Herrera (President) hold the Camera

The night started when we saw Occupy DC on the local news channel. I was with Joey and Byron while when we decided this would be a great oppertunity to distribute Constitutions to Occupy protesters. We brought a huge box of Constitutions with us and gave them out to everyone we saw. Some offered help to distribute them and we were more than happy to have them join us. The more we gave out, the more the people were aware of what was happening.

We took part in the protest and, as the video shows, we were able to get someone with a loud voice to recite the Preamble of the Constitution to the police and to educate them on our constitutional rights.

Since the early day of our republic, states' rights have been an integral part of our country's federal system.  In The Federalist, No. 40, James Madison states, "I ask hat are these principles [of opposition to the Constitution]?  do they require that in the establishment of the Constitution, the States should be regarded as distinct and independent sovereigns? They are so regarded by the Constitution proposed."

Without a doubt, the states have rights, but riddle me this:  Do the states have the right to take away the individual rights of their citizens? Undoubtedly not, as Slade Mendhall explains:

In order to illustrate the immorality of their positions, let us consider a hypothetical circumstance. Imagine that the federal government was to cede all of its regulatory authority to state governments— the regulation of industry, healthcare, education, communications, food, drugs, transportation, and environmental impact were retained as they stand today; all entitlement and social welfare programs were divided between the states according to the amount of their citizens’ contributions to the programs; nothing was changed save for the locus of power in our national political structure being reoriented from Washington D.C. to the fifty capitals. With all policies held constant, ultimately, the degree to which current laws and regulations violate the rights of private citizens and corporations would remain unchanged. In envisioning such a circumstance, the question which arises is this: if force is to be used to extract from individuals the products of their labor in order to contribute their wages and property to unjust aims, of what significance is it that the party that takes those wages is an agent of the state instead of the federal government?

Read the full article here.

George Washington said that "The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon." But just take a glance at the city that shares his name, and you'll see just the opposite:  Most politicians have no reservations when it comes to abandoning this critical document.

Sadly, this is also reflected in our schools. The youth of America spend very little time learning about our founding documents and the role that they played and continue to play in shaping our republic. However, Ohio Senate Bill 165, The Founding of America Documents Bill, aims to change that.

History repeats itself.

At the height of the Soviet Union’s power, the principal decision-making was done by a small, powerful cabal: the central committee’s politic bureau, more commonly known as the politboro. You see, under Marxist-Leninist states, the Communist party is propagandized as “the vanguard of the people” instead of being presented as what they really were and have always been:  government agents seeking to centralize power into the hands of a few, effectively creating an oligarchy. Of course, other variations of this power structure have existed or continue to, from the Third Reich to the China.

No debates. No amendments. No filibustering. Checks and balances? Gone. Constituent input? Not happening. That’s what the law-making process may soon look like, as we usher in the era of "The Super Congress.”

...or the American Politburo. 

While swallowing the first bites of that “satan sandwich” that is the bi-partisan “debt ceiling deal,” Americans will come to find the compromise bill contains more than just an additional 7-to-10-trillion-something in debt shackles. By now, you’ve probably heard about the alarming proposal of a legislative body that would supercede both houses:  “The Super congress,” as it was originally labeled by the Huffington Post. Like a bad Freddy Krueger movie, or watching Tom Delay try to dance on reality TV, it’s a nightmare now manifesting itself into reality (thanks to a provision jammed into the bill that allowed for the committee’s creation).