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The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is dedicated to defending the constitutional rights of all Americans. ACRU stands against harmful, anti-constitutional ideologies that have taken hold in our nation’s courts, culture, and bureaucracies. We defend and promote free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and national sovereignty.

America's Three Greatest Presidents

By |2020-04-23T21:57:07-04:00February 27th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 27, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Turns out the shortest month on the calendar is actually the most significant for American history. For our three greatest Presidents were all born in February.

George Washington

Born on February, 22, 1732, George Washington displayed a character that continues to define our nation. The General of the victorious army that defeated the most powerful nation on earth at the time, he could have led a march on the Congress and declared himself the King, […]

Joe Doe Loses His Fight with the 10 Commandments

By |2013-02-25T10:37:25-05:00February 25th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 25, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has lost its six-year campaign to tear down a Ten Commandments monument at the Dixie County, Florida, courthouse.

They’ve even lost their usual extortion money for harassing a community.

The case fell apart after the plaintiff, an anonymous North Carolina man who had planned to come to Dixie County to live in his RV, decided not to move there after all.

Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice M. Paul dismissed the case without prejudice on Feb. […]

As the Economy Recesses, Obama's Global Warming Delusions Are Truly Cruel

By |2013-02-22T12:50:02-05:00February 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 22, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama issued this threat to the American people in his 2013 State of the Union Address (SOTU): “But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change….Now, the good news is, we can make meaningful progress on this issue while driving strong economic growth….But if Congress doesn’t act soon to protect future generations, I will.”

Obama cited as support for his threatened global warming regulatory jihad, […]

Sequester Hysterics

By |2013-02-21T13:49:41-05:00February 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 20, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama told America yesterday morning that if the sequester goes through on March 1,

It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research…. Emergency responders like the ones who are here today — their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Border Patrol agents will see their hours reduced. FBI agents will be furloughed. Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. Air […]

The Next Citizens United? SCOTUS Takes First Amendment Challenge to Campaign Finance Law

By |2020-04-23T21:50:21-04:00February 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be the next Citizens United, considering whether a central part of the nation’s foundational federal campaign-finance law violates the First Amendment.

In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). After the national trauma of Watergate (which has nothing to do with Marco Rubio), Congress vastly expanded FECA in 1974, creating the modern campaign-finance system governing federal campaigns.

Several provisions of FECA were challenged in constitutional grounds. In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court […]

Lars Larson: MO Gun Control Proposal Raises Constitutional Problems

By |2020-04-23T21:53:58-04:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson–who is not a lawyer–understands the relevant provisions of the Constitution better than many lawyers I know.

One television personality referred to the proposed Missouri ban as going after assault weapons and guns with assault-weapon features. That’s half-right: there is no such thing as an assault weapon; it’s not a class of firearms. It’s a made-up term by anti-gun politicians to scare ordinary […]

Why Celebrate Washington's Birthday?

By |2013-02-17T22:28:53-05:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by former federal judge and ACRU policy board member Richard Bender Abell was published in the Mount Vernon Gazette.

A great nation — a great democracy — needs heroes to set an example — a paradigm for conduct, a coalescence of our own defining traits.

Currently we live in an anti-heroic age. Egalitarianism presides. The great American Revolution was about Liberty — not egalitarianism. The latter was part and parcel of the French and Soviet Revolutions. We sought Liberty as God given — Liberty under God; the French and the Soviets sought freedom from God. Their legacy is that of a hecatomb of […]

Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Ten Commandments Display

By |2013-02-17T22:08:48-05:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse’s steps. A local Christian man paid to put a six-ton (12,000 lbs.) stone Ten Commandments display there in 2006.

The ACLU sued on behalf of an anonymous North Carolina ACLU member who said he planned to buy property in that area and had to see the display when he went to the county courthouse. […]

President Obama's State of Disunion: Half of America Is in a Trance

By |2013-02-16T15:16:27-05:00February 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 15, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Reagan famously said “Government is not the answer to the problem. Government IS the problem.”

But keeping with his unwavering theme as the unrelenting opposite of Reagan in every way, what President Obama told us in his State of the Union (SOTU) this week can be most accurately summed up as “Government is not the problem, government is the answer.”

Please, print out the transcript and read it in black and white. […]

Obama and the Pirates

By |2013-02-15T07:18:24-05:00February 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 13, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion.

You probably heard again last night that President Obama still thinks “the rich,” a crass term implying low class social envy, do not pay their “fair share.” He has been barnstorming America saying precisely that for his more than four years in office now. But the indisputable facts from official government sources say […]

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