Posts Tagged ‘Federal government of the United States’
 

 
 

Should Iowa Adopt Arizona’s Immigration Law?

By Nathan Tucker At a recent campaign stop, Republican gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad proposed a law similar to Arizona’s in order to deal with the state’s growing illegal immigration problem. While the proposal, wh...
by Nathan W. Tucker

 
 
 

What does the DOMA Ruling Mean?

By Nathan Tucker Recently, Massachusetts Federal District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that portions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) were unconstitutional because it violated both the Fifth and Tenth Amendments.  Tho...
by Nathan W. Tucker

 
 
 

The Iowa Constitution; Precedents to Convention, Part 2

By Chris The first of Iowa’s Constitutional Conventions met in 1844.  The Constitution proposed by that Convention was considered and rejected by the people in an election in April 1845.  Unsure whether the voters rejected ...
by The Iowa Republican

 

 
 

If it is not Declarational, then it is not Constitutional?

By Nathan Tucker On this day 234 years ago, our Founders declared that “these United Colonies are, and of a Right ought to be Free and Independent States [and] that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown....
by Nathan W. Tucker

 
 
 

Ron Paul: Keeping the Republic

By Congressman Ron Paul The story is often told that at the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, Mrs. Powell asked Benjamin Franklin as he emerged from the convention, “Well Doctor...
by The Iowa Republican