Author: Stephen B. Presser › American Greatness

The Supreme Court Recaptures the Constitution and Returns to American Greatness

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July 5, 2022

There can be no order without law, no law without morality, and no morality without religion. The Supreme Court has brought us closer to implementing this maxim than we have been in two generations.

Sotomayor, the Gospels, and the Tyranny of the COVID Bureaucracy

By Stephen B. Presser

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December 5, 2021

Our federal government now appears to be suffering from an unparalleled arrogance and corruption of its own, as many of state governments appear unable or unwilling to carry out their duties.

Can Prudence and the Constitution Prevail in the Face of Court Packing?

By Stephen B. Presser

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April 11, 2021

It is a supremely imprudent policy to make the court more political, and it ought to be resisted.

The ‘Pathetic’ Genesis of a Fake News Story

By Stephen B. Presser

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March 27, 2021

Truth ought still to be the most important thing in our lives and our politics, but truth is not advanced by assertions taken out of context to affirm a narrative.

In Defense of Conservatism, the Benson Center, and John Eastman

By Stephen B. Presser

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March 5, 2021

Neither the mainstream media nor the critics of the Benson Center and John Eastman seem to understand that Eastman, and his client Donald Trump, were actually acting in defense of the rule of law.

How to Restore Faith in the Constitution

By Stephen B. Presser

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January 18, 2021

There must be a clear confirmation or denial of a stolen election in 2020, and the American people must demand accountability if not before a Biden inauguration, then in 2022 and 2024.

Can We Recover American Nobility, Piety, and Humanity?

By Stephen B. Presser

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August 19, 2020

In our time there is much virtue-signaling, but too little actual virtue.

The Summer of Our Discontent

By Stephen B. Presser

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June 28, 2020

If the Democrats recapture the presidency and the Senate, and if their blinkered and narrowly technocratic ideology triumphs, it spells the end of a great America.

Social Distancing Must Not Destroy American Greatness

By Stephen B. Presser

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March 24, 2020

John Adams could teach 21st-century Americans a thing or two about persevering in the midst of a crisis. Above all, we should think twice before abandoning our freedom of association.

Can Aristotle and St. Thomas Help Us Preserve the Constitution?

By Stephen B. Presser

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January 12, 2020

If his fellow scholars take Strang seriously (and they should), he might indeed move us further away from government by judiciary, and back toward the rule of law and the Constitution’s original understanding.

Revealing the Real Cause of Deep State Corruption

By Stephen B. Presser

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December 29, 2019

America is threatened by a loss of its constitutional system. The threat does not come from the current occupant of the White House, but from those who would seek to expel him.

The Shakespearean Grandeur of Trump Derangement Syndrome

By Stephen B. Presser

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December 7, 2019

A deranged and unconstitutional inquiry is underway. Where is the Bard when we need him?

There Is No Good Case for Impeachment

By Stephen B. Presser

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November 26, 2019

Unless the deep state wants to further its own demise, however, and unless the Democrat candidates for president want to spend a good deal of the campaign season off the hustings and in a Senate proceeding they will lose, we are probably witnessing the beginning of the end of the Trump impeachment.

President Trump Did the Right Thing with the Dreamers.
Will the Supreme Court?

By Stephen B. Presser

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November 17, 2019

Too often the courts have deferred to executive branch officials, acting through the administrative state—or “the swamp,” as President Trump likes to call it. That may be about to change.

Reversing the Venality of American Politics

By Stephen B. Presser

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October 30, 2019

If one reads President Trump’s speeches, one is struck by the manner in which the framers’ themes of the importance of piety and morality are sounded. This man, dismissed as a liar and a buffoon by his enemies, is actually capable of the most touching rhetoric we have heard in decades.

What the Framers Knew That Hillary Doesn’t

By Stephen B. Presser

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October 19, 2019

Beneath Clinton’s feud with Tulsi Gabbard and the Democrats’ impeachment efforts is a vital lesson about political corruption and the value of constitutional government.

American Greatness Itself is at Stake in 2020, and Trump Knows It

By Stephen B. Presser

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October 6, 2019

Democrats and progressives want a secular public square, but Trump and his supporters reflect an earlier America, when it was believed that there could be no order without law, no law without morality, and no morality without religion.

If Not the Hand of Providence, Then Timeless Political Principles

By Stephen B. Presser

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September 23, 2019

In defense of the U.S. Constitution.

A Rock Star’s Rant and a Pedophile’s Purported Suicide

By Stephen B. Presser

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August 12, 2019

If we are going to continue to come closer to our past experience of American greatness, Tommy Lee’s demented plea for a 2020 victory cannot be permitted to come to pass.

Trump and the Founders: Just What Jefferson Wanted?

By Stephen B. Presser

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July 13, 2019

How did the Constitution’s framers envision the presidency? Would Donald Trump be their worst nightmare, or just what they had in mind? We know something […]