Well, I would say Mike - that by the information you shared that Chief Justice Chase had a problem with speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
First Chase stated "personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax. And, then later imposed the complete opposite of what he previously had stated.
Hypocrisy and subterfuge all too often reigns supreme in Disney on the Potomac!

Yes, yes a thousand times "Yes!"

There is no authority for the government to decide what speech is deemed "Politically Correct."

The absolute brilliance of Frederic Bastiat!
Sad, that we have so long been blanketed with a congress that comes no where near Bastiat's honed intelligence.

Waffler - Your asinine spittle is on IGNORE!

Yes! The right of Jury Nullification!

Einstein was brilliant in more ways than one! Sadly, his statement is as true today as when it was first spoken.
Too bad we cannot say the same for the straw-man Waffler, Smith who seems to live in his own alternative universe.
Waffler needs to join a page where he can find like-minded COMRADE Progressive-Socialists to dance his ludicrous and fully despoilment of Liberty jig. Sadly, Waffler has yet to learn that we aren't ever going to fall in line with his obvious ignorance... but, he must like to fully waste his time being ignored. Such is the case when someone can't put one brain cell in front of the other.

The U.S. Constitution is this nation's ONLY Supreme Rule of Law that all of our public representatives take a sacred oath and make a contract to fully uphold and adhere to.
We the People are granted the power to remove them from office when they violate, usurp and abrogate their oath and sacred vow and covenant by going to the polls and voting them out of office.

I may not agree with all that Alexander Hamilton believed, especially his creation of a Central Bank, but in regards to this quote - I fully agree.
No Act, Law, President, Judge or Legislator is superior to the U.S. Constitution. And, in swearing their sacred oath of office they have made a contract to stay within the enumerated confines and limitations of the contract they made upon swearing their sacred oath and covenant to this nation's ONLY Supreme Rule of Law.
Any law or Act that supersedes the Supreme Rule of Law and runs contrary to it is null and void. That is why I fully support the efforts and initiatives of the 10th Amendment Center.
Oh, and Jimi Bigbear, Libertyville, IA - I find your broad brush denigration of all those descended from Jews (Hebrews) and of Jewish descent disgusting and vile.
You seem to have dismissed the fact that Jesus, Mary & Joseph were Hebrews (Jews).

We must stand tall in restoring "We the People!"

Well, now we know Jimi Bigbear, Libertyville, IA that you are a full blown racist.
I'm glad that we have the likes of intellectually superior people to your backward and racist views that ultimately and completely trashes your mental amoeba ideology.
You could not come near filling the superior intellectual shoes of the likes of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell.
Christ was not a Caucasian, so I don't doubt that you would have pounded in one of the nails and supplied Him with the vinegar to drink.

Our founders who risked life, limb, wealth and their families fought long and hard for this nation's Liberties and Freedoms against a despotic British government and its king. They realized that in order to protect the new found country/nation from foreign invasion and to protect all individual sovereign unalienable rights that they had to form a government made up of a Limited Republic with a Supreme Rule of Law.

Without the U.S. Constitution we would persistently suffer individuals who have despotic ulterior motives and agenda's. The end consequence would be that our liberties and freedoms would dissolve into constant and continuous mayhem.

Why do I state that? Because human-beings are not saints and without a national Supreme Rule of Law (which by the way can be amended under Article V) despots, megalomaniacs, power hungry narcissistic sociopaths with extreme wealth and power would surely own the people and destroy all thought of liberty and unalienable natural rights. - Mary MacMaster - June 17, 2013

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)

Sad that Teddy Roosevelt was just as much a Progressive constitution shredder as Woodrow Wilson.

Add me into the round of applause for Mike!
Great comeback to someone who probably believes there are no absolutes or that reality doesn't exist.
At least I can say one thing about Waffler and that is that he/she truly is a persistent annoying Troll.

Sad that Waffler can never accept TRUTH. But, when you're are flaming indoctrinated socialist who would rather hold the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto in high esteem rather than the U.S. Constitution and the founding principles what more can you expect?
Waffler's straw man, pot-stirring statements are a wasted attempt at childish subterfuge.
He only visits Liberty Tree because he is an obvious Troll who has nothing better to do with his time, but to act like a very annoying mosquito or one celled creature.

Excellent statement by former Congressman Hansen. I posted it on Facebook.

E Archer - Not only "Thieves", but Tyrants and Despots created by a group of vile Progressives with the intent to enslave all that they consider as serfs.

The Socialists - anti-U.S. Constitution CRICKETS -
by the names of Waffler, Popeye and Reston are again tossing out their strawman statements.
Doesn't it seem strange to True Patriots how these socialist Neanderthals subscribe to e-mails from Liberty Tree when they are absolutely opposed to the unalienable rights of the Individual?
They are pot stirrers and hate mongers who most likely can't control their own little, diminutive world and therefore trash anything that reflects the right and freedom to personal initiative and responsibility.
Liberty is wholly out of their realm!

I fully and completely concur with Jacob G. Hornberger!

David, Mannington, NJ - The solution is to audit and abolish both the IRS and the Federal Reserve (privately run) Bank that came into very questionable ratification existence during the infamous year of 1913.
As Walter Williams so aptly stated, "The bottom line is that members of Congress need such a ruthless tax collection agency as the IRS because of the charge we Americans have given them."
The U.S. Congress could make a move this very day to abolish both of these vile, wealth-stealing bureaucracies. They are not inclined to do so because of the benefit to them of garnering special tax favors for a favored few....thus buying their votes.

"Our Founding Fathers feared the emergence of an agency such as the IRS and its potential for abuse. That's why they gave us Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution, which reads: "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken." A capitation is a tax placed directly on an individual. That's what an income tax is. The founders feared the abuse and the government power inherent in a direct tax. In Section 8 of Article 1, they added, "But all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States." These protections the founders gave us were undone by the Progressive era's 16th Amendment, which reads, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." .....
..... The bottom line is that members of Congress need such a ruthless tax collection agency as the IRS because of the charge we Americans have given them. We want what the IRS does -- namely, to take the earnings of one American so Congress can create a benefit for some other American. Don't get angry with IRS agents. They are just following orders." - Walter Williams
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/05/29/inority-view-n1607099/page/full

Hey - I think I'm hearing that Cricket again. I think its name is Waffler. Then again - I should not insult the poor crickets, because they live in the reality of their existence and not in the "Fog of the Unknown!

IRS Employee Qualifications - bloodless, soulless with strong sociopathic and narcissistic tendencies.

Great statement Al, DC!

My, how far the New York Times has fallen since 1894 into a Progressive, socialist agenda.

Oh, and Reston - You need a complete epistemological house cleaning, but I doubt that you can be saved from your thorough and horrific communist indoctrination.

Wise words from Michael Moriarty.
If only all could see that in wanting a government created Utopia - actually means control of your every breath from birth until death.