THE CONSTITUTION STUDY

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – When it comes to being secure in your person, house, papers, and effects, what does it mean for a search or seizure to be reasonable? What about the data our governments collect from us and how it is shared? Do we have a reasonable expectation that governments will keep our private information secure?

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – You’re probably not as familiar with Separation of Powers as you think you are. Most Americans are aware of the separation between the three branches of government. Few seem aware of the separation of powers between the states and the federal government. This lack of understanding has led us to some truly terrible abuses of power and of the...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – You may be familiar with the novel “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Unlike that work of fiction, crimes and their punishments happen quite frequently, and government actors are not immune. Thomas Massie claims that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has committed crimes worthy of impeachment. I wonder why he’s going...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – An 18th-century French princess is known for saying "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.” In English, “Let them eat cake.” This phrase has become part of our vernacular, showing a person with utter disregard for the people they claim to rule. In America, we have politicians, bureaucrats, and pundits who often show an utter disregard for the...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Debates over surveillance, vaccine mandates, religious exemptions, and glyphosate raise questions about personal freedom and public health. From license plate readers to courtroom battles over vaccines and Monsanto, competing claims about safety, government authority, and individual rights shape discussions about threats to lives and liberties...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Unique in world history, the Constitution of the United States not only established what we now call the federal government, but gives We the People tools to both defend and assert our rights. That has not stopped Congress from passing laws and creating agencies in violation of the supreme law of the land. Sadly though, most...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Trump and Hochul appear to be using government to help their causes in the upcoming election. Trump plans to “rebate” Obamacare funds collected under the Biden Administration, while Hochul is offering state grants to a significant voting bloc. While unemployment reports look pretty good, serious problems lurk beneath the surface...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – According to the so-called “experts,” we all should have sweated to death decades ago, but we haven’t. Do you realize that the world has spent $9 trillion dollars just since 2020 in a futile attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures? I say futile because they could not reach their goal of a rise of only 1.5°C. At best, they think they can limit it to...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Ever since he took office, Donald Trump and his administration have been trying to meddle in the state voter registration system. Apparently, the fact that the Constitution places both holding elections and registering voters in the hands of the states, not the federal government, hasn’t prevented federal meddling in matters that aren't its purview...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Learning from the past requires honest reflection rather than politically convenient interpretations. From judicial precedent and scientific integrity to socialist policies and declining school performance, life’s consequences challenge us to examine our assumptions, question institutional failures, and ask whether history truly informs our decisions today...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – A lower court judge decided the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobb’s doesn’t really matter. The Catholic Church is suing the State of Illinois in District Court over a law that requires its adherents to assist in the suicide of terminally ill patients. The State of Missouri is asking SCOTUS to protect them against their own state supreme court...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Are our governments of, by, and for the people, as Abraham Lincoln claimed in his Gettysburg Address? Or have our governments devolved into bribery and intimidation? I think you’ll find much more of the latter than the former. Another Congressional committee is using subpoenas to try to intimidate a citizen into giving up their rights to...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Does your right to free speech include the right to interrupt a gathering? What if it was a church service? What about your right to privacy, or your right to keep and bear arms? Are there constitutional limitations on those rights? What about your right to control the upbringing of your children?

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – I know, it sounds like a joke, but trust me, it isn’t. New York is trying to get its hands on $75 million for their climate slush fund (superfund). A federal judge said no, not because of the state law, but because they claim the federal law, which was not made pursuant to the Constitution, supersedes it. Similarly, New York, both the state and the city, are...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Freedom depends on whether Americans choose to govern themselves or surrender decisions to political elites. As socialism gains electoral ground, questions grow about personal responsibility, self-reliance, liberty, and whether citizens still trust themselves to make choices, pursue happiness, and live without increasing government control today...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – How do we protect our rights from big-tech abuses? Is it a form of union, or must we be willing to give up the latest thing to protect our rights? What about those Automatic License Plate Readers? Can we defend our rights from the abuses of this technology? And really, is it the technology that’s the problem, or the public servants we hire that abuse it?

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – There’s been a lot of talk about Dr. Fauci and others being held “in contempt of Congress,” but what about those members of Congress and others who hold the Constitution and their oath to support it in contempt? Senator Hawley holds his oath in contempt with all of his “kangaroo court” investigations. Remember, Senator, Congress writes the...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – As I look at where our nation is, and where we are going, it seems some are pushing us toward both financial and moral bankruptcy. Not only is the federal government borrowing money we don’t have to pay for programs it is not legally allowed to create, but more and more of those programs are being used to replace our freedoms with...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – When Senator Lindsey Graham died, the governor of South Carolina made what I think was an emotional decision by placing his sister Darline in the office until an election could be held. In the recent primary for that office, the Republicans of South Carolina did not choose the experienced candidate. There have been plenty of examples of both political parties choosing...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Election integrity raises deeper questions about constitutional limits, federal power, citizenship, representation, and state authority. As debates over mail-in ballots, non-citizen voting, census rules, and executive action intensify, preserving self-government depends on enforcing constitutional boundaries and resisting the steady expansion of centralized control in Washington...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – How safe are you really? Do you expect government actors to come protect you? Who makes sure those actors aren’t the ones you need protection from? What do you do then? Meanwhile, the Department of Justice recently sent out watchers to oversee primary elections in Florida and Wyoming. I guess no one told the DOJ that Congress has no...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Not everything you’ve heard about the Constitution is actually true. Not even everything judges say about the Constitution is accurate. With all of these stories and anecdotes going around, I have to ask, will those Americans who are constitutionally literate please stand up? Donald Trump pointed out that term limits should be...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – What are we teaching the rising generation through schools, government policies, and our own actions? Declining academic standards, political influence, mounting national debt, and punishment of parental concerns raise troubling questions about whether young Americans are learning to think independently, value freedom, and accept responsibility...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – What happens when those legitimate concerns grow into obsessions? On the one hand, people are concerned about the growth of the socialist movement within the Democratic Party, especially the Democratic Socialists of America. Then again, some socialists seem so obsessed with their propaganda they’re willing, even eager, to destroy...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – America’s accelerating embrace of socialist policies raises questions about the real costs of government control, rising crime, economic disruption, cultural conflict, and selective law enforcement. From New York and Seattle to schools and the FBI, warning signs reveal consequences that many voters may overlook today...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – What about the fraud the government committed in response to COVID? All the money they embezzled from the American taxpayer to bribe people they put out of work or whose businesses they destroyed? Do you really think none of that money was redirected to other things? Then we have our federal judges, many of whom seem to...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Some schools are trying to take the teacher out of the classroom, replacing them with Artificial (Imitation) Intelligence. If we take the humanity out of teaching, who will check what our children are being taught? How often do we have to see reports of AIs like ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude simply making up lies before we decide not to trust them to...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Was it that Woke 1.0 that was crazy, or anything woke? Like the idea of open borders, now that people have been charged with selling fake marriages so their customers could get green cards? What about all the things we were told were “fake news” that have turned out to be true?

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – How often has someone told you to just trust them? And how often did that turn out to be a scam? Just like the line from The Wizard of Oz, every time a politician asks me to ignore what I’ve seen and just trust them, I think “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” That’s a good way to lose more than your money; it’s a great way to lose your rights.

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Religious freedom remains a vital safeguard for believers and nonbelievers alike. Mark David Hall examines how states protect freedom of conscience, where progress is being made, and why challenges involving worship restrictions, vaccine exemptions, and government policy still demand public attention and vigilance today nationwide...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – When you think of the cost of regulation, what comes to mind? Maybe a fee or fine you have to pay? Maybe an additional cost for the items you buy. But what if the cost of regulation is much, much higher? Trump created the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) to cut government waste. Then why has the national debt increased...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Think about it: 90% of American children, at around the age of five, are handed over to a government program run by those who avow and promote socialism, and then we’re shocked when they vote for socialists. If you’ve only been shown the benefits of a system, and none of its costs, why wouldn’t you support it? So why are we surprised when...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Political narratives often survive because they confirm existing beliefs rather than withstand scrutiny. From accusations surrounding Donald Trump and Russia to claims against Energy Secretary Christopher Wright, questions emerge about whether officials, lawmakers, and citizens truly seek evidence or simply reinforce comfortable political assumptions instead...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – While the difference between socialism and communism is who owns the business, both models involve government controlling pretty much everything. But what does a nation look like when government runs everything? How often have we seen some socialist group use violence to get their way? Claiming they need to ignore the...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Americans increasingly confront a growing surveillance state, yet public demands for safety help fuel its expansion. License plate readers, privacy concerns, gun-control laws, and reliance on police raise questions about limited government, personal responsibility, self-defense, and the tradeoffs citizens accept in exchange for greater security...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Like the Texas legislation that requires insurance companies that cover gender transition also cover rehabilitation for those who detransition. What about the woman who stood up to the University of Michigan Health-West when they demanded that she use a person’s “preferred pronouns” and provide referrals for so-called gender...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Have you ever tried to navigate without a compass, or with a compass that’s broken? If you cannot navigate the world around you without a functioning compass, how can you navigate society when the compass of history has been manipulated? The Democratic Socialists of America not only have a twisted view of our history...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – The Senate Homeland Security Committee invited Fauci to testify, and he refused. Then the committee issued an illegal subpoena, demanding that he testify before the hearing, even though that subpoena violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. Then, when Dr. Fauci invoked his right against self-incrimination, not only...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Where did the People of New York consent to the City of New York running grocery stores with discount prices? Because I don’t believe either the Constitution of the State of New York or the Charter for the City delegates such a power to the city. Meanwhile, Tennessee is looking at legislation to regulate Flock and other Automatic...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Free speech exposes ideas, challenges beliefs, and reveals character, which is why governments, media outlets, and cultural institutions increasingly seek to control it. From Canada’s hate-speech laws to American prosecutions and public attacks, censorship threatens open debate, accountability, and the public’s right to question authority...