Joe Wolverton

3 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

When the Founding Fathers designed the office of the president of the United States, they did so with the keen memory of monarchy fresh in their minds. George Washington, whose example remains the gold standard of American republican virtue, set a precedent that no president would serve more than two terms. That standard stood unbroken for nearly 150 years, until Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an unprecedented four terms.

3 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

For decades now, Washington has played a shameful shell game with the lives of American soldiers and the liberties of the American people. Nowhere is this more obvious — and more dangerous — than in the War Powers Act of 1973. This law is an affront to the Constitution, a perversion of the rule of law, and a cowardly escape hatch for Congress to shirk its solemn duty to declare war while still allowing American blood to be spilled in unconstitutional, undeclared conflicts all over the globe.

1 month ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States has once again demonstrated that black robes are no defense against yellow spines. In a stunning 7-2 decision, the Court upheld the Biden administration’s authoritarian attempt to regulate so-called ghost guns, surrendering yet another critical inch of the Constitution to the ever-hungry Leviathan in Washington.

1 month ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

In the long corridor of forgotten champions of liberty, few names deserve to be dusted off and remembered more than Paul de Rapin — a French Protestant, a political exile, a soldier turned historian. Rapin’s life was not merely a series of odd turns. It was a pilgrimage toward truth, a life spent illuminating the principles of constitutional government.

1 month ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

Two hundred and fifty years ago, in the smoky sanctum of St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, a man stood, not with musket or saber, but with words forged hotter than any blade. Patrick Henry’s thunderous cry — “Give me liberty or give me death!” — did not merely echo through the chamber of the Second Virginia Convention; it ignited a fire in the hearts of freemen that turned colonies into a nation and subjects into sovereigns. Now, a quarter of a millennium later, that flame flickers.