The Administrative Procedure Act: Unraveling Constitutional Concerns

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 is often hailed as a landmark legislation that sought to bring order and transparency to the federal administrative process. However, beneath the veneer of good intentions lie deep-seated constitutional violations that cast a shadow over the legitimacy of the APA and the regulatory state it has spawned. This …

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The Enlightenment as a Political Movement

Over the last few days, we have been exploring the enlightenment as a philosophical movement.  This movement started as a reaction to the significant advances in math and science, particularly Isaac Newton’s mathematical modeling of planetary movement, which described their orbits without the traditional process of metaphysics, the understanding of the planet’s first principles.  From there, the …

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Citizen Responsibility

Up to this point we have been looking at the responsibilities of leaders in the proper formation of government.  Plato believed in the philosopher king while his student Aristotle believed in the rule of law and the proper formation of a constitution consisting of the laws, traditions, and habits that together form the nature of a …

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