The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – "Give them an inch, and they’ll take a mile." If there is one idiom to describe our Founding Father’s understanding of the need for a limited government, that has to be it. Over my lifetime, I’ve watched as government actors, at all levels, have taken mile after mile of our rights and liberties. Most of these illegal powers are vested not in elected...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – In the Preamble of the Constitution, we find the reason for that document and the purposes behind its drafting. One of those reasons was to “Establish Justice.” Not Social Justice or Economic Justice, but just plain justice, which, according to Noah Webster and his 1828 dictionary, is “The virtue which consists in giving to everyone what is his...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Once a year, America sets aside a day to preserve the memory of those who have given their last measure of devotion to this country. This day of memory is relegated by many to a simple holiday, a day off work, and a chance for a cookout. For others, it is a time for parades and decorating cemeteries. Regardless of how you treat this day, it is a day...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Noah Webster defined a “republic” in his dictionary as: “A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person.” In order for a nation to be a republic...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Why are the progressives so obsessed with separating children from their parents? Hillary Clinton thinks you can’t raise your children and that “It takes a village to raise a child.” Personally, I like the retort I heard from Thomas Sowell. “It takes a village idiot to believe that!” Why do those who promote the public education system work...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – How many of you remember Superman’s motto? I grew up with that call, that ideal, that not only this fictional superhero but every American should fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Yet today, it seems so many people aren’t fighting for these ideals but against them. Even DC Comics dropped the phrase “The American Way” for...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – As I travel the country speaking to people about the Constitution, one question I’m frequently asked is, "Would I run for Congress?" I have a couple of reasons why I don’t. One is I don’t lie, and we all know that lying is a required skill for members of Congress. The other is a little more nuanced. Since I would uphold my oath to support the...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – There are plenty of disagreements about what policy is best, but does anyone bother to see if those policies actually work? Want a scarier thought? What if these policies actually ARE working? Albert Einstein said that doing the same thing over and over against expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity. But what if those...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – With the release of the Durham Report, we have yet another example of the corruption that seems to be so evident in Washington, D.C. We should ask ourselves, is government corrupt by nature, or is it something else? While I’m sure, many of you may answer that question with a hearty “YES!” I think a closer look will show...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Years ago, I taught Sunday School, and for several of those years, I was teaching high-school-level teenagers. Every year I pointed out to my students that the most difficult question I would ask all year was, “Why?” What makes that the most difficult question for a group of Sunday School students? Because many of them...