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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.

Why Mayberry Still Resonates: 'The Andy Griffith Show' Plays Out Timeless Truths

By |2012-07-09T13:20:47-04:00July 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 29, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

“Americans loved, and still love, the notion of the small town as a manageable, non-threatening, friendly, finite community. … The black-and-white world that Andy Griffith shaped so masterfully is there for our perusal from a distance, but it is not coming back – either on television or anywhere else.” – Ted Anthony, Associated Press

In an elegant obituary for Andy Griffith, who died on July 3 at age 86, Ted Anthony might be right about the survival of small communities, but perhaps […]

The Great Dissent Part I: Four Justices in Obamacare Make Case for Constitutional Conservatism

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00July 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 5, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

One week after the Supreme Court handed down its most consequential decision in decades (if not more than a century–upholding almost all of Obamacare in NFIB v. Sebelius–constitutional lawyers are just beginning to wrap their heads around the Court’s 193-page opinion.

This column is the first in a series that will unpack some of the most consequential aspects of that decision, mostly quoting relevant parts of the decision that will have lasting consequences for the country.

The dissent in NFIB v. Sebelius, written jointly by Justices Antonin Scalia, […]

Obamacare RIP: John Roberts Cannot Save You

By |2012-07-05T20:00:03-04:00July 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Progressives are desperate to prevent the country from learning that free market conservatives have long been proposing policies to assure essential health care for all, and achieve all the other goals of Obamacare, at just a small fraction of the costs. That involves a health care safety net ensuring that no one would suffer from lack of essential health care, with no individual mandate and no employer mandate, achieving that goal far more effectively than […]

How to Defeat and Replace Obamacare Now

By |2020-04-23T21:57:08-04:00July 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Whether Left, Right, Independent, or Confused, no one who is not bought and paid for as part of the Obama political machine is going to like the Obama Double Cross of the American people on Obamacare. Before Obamacare was passed, Obama told the American people over and over, even on national TV, that the individual mandate was not a tax. After Obamacare was passed, Obama sent his lawyers into courts all over the country to argue that […]

The Underclass

By |2012-07-05T10:10:50-04:00July 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in Life at the Bottom. It’s an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavior and attitudes of the underclass.

In one essay, “We Don’t Want No Education,” reprinted by City Journal, Dalrymple says that he cannot recall meeting a 16-year-old from the public housing project near his hospital who could perform simple multiplication […]

It's Independence Day, Not Dependence Day

By |2012-07-04T18:52:45-04:00July 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published July 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Many Americans refer to July 4th as the Fourth of July, but earlier in our history, it was widely known as Independence Day.

As we celebrate the 236th anniversary of the day that the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, we might consider going back to the original term. In 1776, Americans were bucking the authority of a faraway tyrannical power — King George III of England — who treated the colonists like second-class subjects.

Today, powerful elites […]

Court's Awful Ruling Taxes Our Patients

By |2012-07-02T11:06:56-04:00July 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 29, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

When is a tax not a tax? Answer: When you’re busy pushing a major expansion of government like Obamacare. The tax that is not a tax becomes a “penalty” or a “shared responsibility payment” in the text of the bill. In campaign lingo, it becomes an “investment.”

That’s what the Democrats told us when they rammed Obamacare down America’s throat. In a famous clip you can find on YouTube, President Obama adamantly denies to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the individual mandate is, […]

One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions in American History

By |2012-06-29T12:00:48-04:00June 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now the Taxing Clause of the Constitution trumps the Commerce Clause as the greatest grant of authority to the national government, one that is without any limits that a court can enforce.

We will have more columns on this decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, but this first legal analysis column goes […]

Obamanomics: Economics For Dummies

By |2012-06-28T22:44:03-04:00June 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 28, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama’s June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign. We will hear those same rhetorical points over and over this year, at least until his pollsters realize they are doing more harm than good.

The marker Obama himself laid down for judging his economic policies is whether they would serve “to create strong, sustained growth…pay down our long-term debt…[and] generate good, middle class jobs….” Last […]

Supreme Court Upholds Socialized Medicine

By |2012-06-28T17:44:37-04:00June 28th, 2012|

June 28, 2012 — “The Supreme Court today affirmed the fundamental dishonesty of our politics,” said Peter Ferrara, general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, which filed seven amicus briefs challenging the Affordable Care Act.

“Before Obamacare passed, the President of the United States told the whole country on TV that the individual mandate is not a tax. After Obamacare passed, Barack Obama sent his lawyers into courts all over America to argue that it is constitutional because it is a tax.

“The Supreme Court of the United States just endorsed this fundamental dishonesty of our politics. The President intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts […]

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