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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.

Obama vs. God on Work and Welfare

By |2020-04-23T21:57:08-04:00July 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published July 22, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

President Obama produced political tremors last week when he said in Roanoke that individual success comes from government so we need to give back by paying higher taxes. Combined with his executive order allowing states to opt out of requiring work for welfare, it’s a 10 on the Richter scale.

Contrary to Obama’s spinners, he wasn’t taken out of context. If it was a gaffe, he got stuck on stupid by repeating, “look, if you’ve been successful, you […]

The Great Dissent Part V: Why the Entire Obamacare System Must Be Struck Down in Court

By |2020-04-23T21:57:08-04:00July 17th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The capstone to the Great Dissent was the explanation of why the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down along with the unconstitutional Individual Mandate and the unconstitutional Medicaid Expansion.

When part of a law is found unconstitutional and invalidated by a court, severability doctrine is the set of rules under which a court determines how much of the law must fall alongside the invalid provision. While most large statutes include a severability clause that declares Congress’ wish that if part of […]

Supreme Court Might Not Enforce Constitution's Limits in Second Obama Term

By |2020-04-23T21:53:45-04:00July 17th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on July 13, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Public officials and pundits are still digesting the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. Yet to be discussed are the extraordinary implications for the size and role of government in a second Obama term in light of President Obama’s new stump speech. It is clear there is not a reliable majority on the Court to restrain government power by enforcing the limits imposed by the Constitution.

Most provisions in the Constitution fall into two categories. The […]

Obamanomics: The Final Nail in the Discredited Keynesian Coffin

By |2012-07-15T22:50:00-04:00July 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action which says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, deficits and debt. If that sounds nuts, that’s because it is.

The idea is that the increased government spending and deficits will increase demand in the economy for more production, and that producers will increase supply to meet that demand, hiring more workers and reducing unemployment in the process. […]

Constitution's Limits Threaten in an Obama Second Term

By |2020-04-23T21:53:45-04:00July 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on July 12, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.

Public officials and pundits are still digesting the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. Not yet discussed are the extraordinary implications for the size and role of government in a second Obama term in light of President Obama’s new stump speech, as it is clear there is not a reliable majority on the Court to restrain government power by enforcing the limits imposed by the Constitution.

Most provisions in the Constitution fall into […]

The Great Dissent Part IV: Why Medicaid Expansion is Unconstitutional

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00July 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

We can all be thankful that one thing the Supreme Court got right in the Obamacare decision was striking down at least part of the Affordable Care Act’s massive expansion of Medicaid that would reduce the states to a subservient position before the federal government. Even two liberals–Justice Stephen Breyer and President Barack Obama’s second appointee, Justice Elena Kagan–joined Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion invalidating a key provision in the ACA. But the four dissenters who wrote the Great Dissent would have gone further, striking down the […]

The Future of the "Affordable Care Act"

By |2012-07-11T12:03:10-04:00July 11th, 2012|

This piece is by John McClaughry, Vice President of the Ethan Allen Institute, a member of the CCPP Policy Board and former senior policy advisor to President Reagan.

The Supreme Court has now issued its startling ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare).

Four liberal justices ardently believe, with President Obama, that the constitutional power to regulate commerce authorizes Congress to require individuals to purchase government-approved health insurance, or suffer a monetary penalty for minding their own business.

Five conservative justices believe that the commerce power cannot be stretched to authorize any such penalty.

Four of these five […]

A Second Term Will Be Terminal: Another four years of Obamanomics and Argentina will be crying for us.

By |2012-07-11T10:45:19-04:00July 11th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 11, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

With a second term for Obama, the world-leading America we have known and hoped to leave to our children will be gone. Last Friday’s jobs report confirms that Obama is well on his way to transforming America into a third world country, with declining living standards and perpetual economic stagnation.

Argentina enjoyed the world’s fourth highest per capita GDP in 1929, on par with America at the time. But then the nation lost its way in […]

The Great Dissent Part III: Justices Argue Obamacare Mandate Unconstitutional Because It's Not a Tax–and Why Mitt Romney is Right

By |2012-07-10T11:40:27-04:00July 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Confusion has reigned over whether Obamacare’s individual mandate is a tax, because politics has gotten in the way of serious discussion (no surprise there). As Governor Mitt Romney tried discussing the issue like the serious businessman and serious lawyer (Harvard Law School) that he is, political operatives were so busy making an important political point that it looked like they were on different pages.

Then Romney brought order to chaos by plainly stating: Obamacare’s Individual Mandate was a mandate with a penalty, not […]

The Great Dissent Part II: Four Justices Explain Why Congress' Power to Regulate Commerce Does Not Save Obamacare

By |2012-07-09T13:49:06-04:00July 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 6, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

As I explained after the Obamacare decision came down, it is one of the most unfortunate decisions ever handed down by our highest court. This tragedy is only compounded by the fact that the main dissent in the decision was spectacular.

One of the greatest aspects of the dissent was its ringing affirmation of the doctrine of enumerated powers–the cornerstone of our constitutional system, that a central protection of our liberties is that the federal government only has those specific powers granted it by the Constitution.

The second […]

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