We received official notice on Friday that the Checks in Balances initiative will not make the November ballot. Although we knew from the get-go that it was an uphill battle given the late start we had in collecting signatures, our belief in the urgent nature of this initiative was enough to give it the ol’ [...]
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Is It Constitutional For States To Assert Their Rights?
Two years ago, James Madison’s Montpelier Center for the Constitution conducted a survey of Americans’ knowledge of the Constitution of the United States of America. The report card should worry us all. Although the opening phrase of the Constitution says, “We the People,” 50% of respondents said that they believed that the government’s source [...]
The 10th Amendment Examined: Why Arizona’s Constitutional Rights Are In Danger
There are some who will attempt to discredit the Checks and Balances in Government Initiative by dismissing it as an exercise in ideology. This is folly. This is about real issues. This Initiative is about the strict construction of the 10th Amendment. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited [...]
Checks and Balances Gathers 320,000 Arizona Signatures
On July 5th, 2012 hundreds of thousands of signatures were stacked in boxes, row by row into the Secretary of State, Ken Bennett’s office. These signatures represent people in Arizona that agree the Checks and Balances initiative needs to be on this November’s election ballot. The phrase “checks and balances” is as old as the [...]
