The Constitution and Limited Government
Edwin J. Erler,
CSU San Bernardino
Sept. 10, 2011

"The advent of the administrative state poses the greatest challenge to limited government, because it elevates the welfare of the community—whether real or imagined—over the rights and liberties of individuals. The task today is to confine the federal government to its delegated powers. The minions of the administrative state seek to destroy constitutional boundaries in their desire to replace politics with administration. This is tantamount to denying that legitimate government derives from the consent of the governed, or that limited government rests on the sovereignty of the people."

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Reasserting Federalism in Defense of Liberty
By Ken Cuccinelli
Attorney General of Virginia
Posted May 22, 2011

"SOME FAVORITE VIRGINIANS OF MINE who inspired and crafted our federal Constitution—Mason, Madison, Jefferson, and Henry—also drafted the Constitution of Virginia. And in the latter, they included a critical statement that said, 'No free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved . . . but by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.'”

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Outline of a Platform for Constitutional Government
By Larry Arnn
President, Hillsdale College
Posted Dec. 24, 2010

THERE IS ONLY one way to return to living under the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the institutions of the Constitution. We must come to love those things again. And if we love them, then we will serve them. But we cannot love them until we understand them. And we cannot understand them until we know them.

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The Presidency and the Constitution
By U.S. Rep. Mike Pence
Posted Nov. 23, 2010

THE PRESIDENCY is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. Its powers are vast and consequential, its requirements impossible for mortals to fulfill without humility and insistent attention to its purpose as set forth in the Constitution of the United States. Isn’t it amazing, given the great and momentous nature of the office, that those who seek it seldom pause to consider what they are seeking? Rather, unconstrained by principle or reflection, there is a mad rush toward something that, once its powers are seized, the new president can wield as an instrument with which to transform the nation and the people according to his highest aspirations.

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The Coming Constitutional Debate
By Stephen Markman
Michigan Supreme Court 
April 31, 2010

"Proponents of a “21st century constitution” or “living constitution” aim to transform our nation’s supreme law beyond recognition—and with a minimum of public attention and debate. Indeed, if there is an overarching theme to what they wish to achieve, it is the diminishment of the democratic and representative processes of American government."

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