The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – What happens when the people are no longer the ones elected by the representatives? Where does that leave the republic that the Framers of the Constitution left us? It leaves us somewhere between totalitarianism and a kleptocracy. To be blunt, I’m not sure which is worse.

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Noah Webster said, “An independent judiciary is the firmest bulwark of freedom.” But what happens when that bulwark is used to destroy our freedom? When courts of law are used as courts of revenge? Can liberty survive in such a climate? According to the statistics website statista.com, in 2021, there were approximately 950,000 doctors in the U.S. and 1.3 million lawyers. Why? Because...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – I've worked for many different managers over the years. The ones I disliked the most were the micro-managers - the managers who need to control every aspect of what you do. They need to know what you are working on every minute of the day, how much time you spend on each task, and, worst of all, they need to control how you perform each task. I've worked for micro-managers...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – The process is the punishment. The idea is that you don’t need to win. You can punish someone by simply putting them through the pain and costs of defending themselves. Whether done by government actors or activists, there are plenty of people who have learned to use the system to punish their enemies. You cannot prevent others from being evil, but you can learn how to not be...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – F.D.R. famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In America today, it seems we are so afraid of fear that we’ll throw our rights out the window. First, it was the climate hoax. A bunch of (usually) government-funded scientists said we’re all going to die, and we were willing to give up control of our energy independence in homage to the climate gods. Next, we knelt to...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Have you ever noticed how often it is the well-educated that come up with the dumbest ideas? How often do we see ideas coming out of colleges and universities that just ignore reality yet keep on going? That’s not to say that colleges and universities don’t have their place. I want my doctor, engineer, and architect to have studied the realities they need to keep healthy and safe. And...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – We often talk about freedom of speech and freedom of the press because they are important. But it’s not the speech or press that are truly important, but what they represent, the expression of thought. This explains why tyrants often try to squelch the expression of ideas they don’t like. To quote Benjamin Franklin, writing as Silence Dogood: “Without Freedom of Thought, there...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Just when you thought it was safe to go about your life, the lies come back to destroy your liberty. I wonder, which shocks you more, the arrogance of these institutions, which fail to learn from their mistakes, or the refusal of the American people to wake up to their failures. COVID-19, wildfires, and safe drinking water are just a few examples of the lies we've been told and the consequences...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – We’ve all seen that child, the one who whines and complains until they get their way. Most of us shake our heads in disgust, some at the child and others at the adults who refuse to act like parents. What does that say about some of our social and political discourse today? We watch as children like Greta Thunberg and David Hogg use emotion rather than reason to tell us how we...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – How you define success is important. Most people think there is a common and fixed definition of success, but our Founding Fathers knew better. Liberty recognizes that we all have different goals and, therefore, different ideas of success. For example, one of my successes is owning a decent-sized farm near the middle of nowhere, while my cousin has succeeded in living in a good-sized...