Amendment-a-Day: #10

Loyal Janes know CJP likes to take an occasional tour of the Bill of Rights based on what’s happening in the news, thinking that you can’t fight for your rights if you don’t even know what they are.
Today, we turn your attention to the famous 10th Amendment.  Not ringing any bells, ladies?  Not to worry-  [...]

High Noon- January 20th

In our “Amendment of the Day” series, we like to tell you about an addition to the Constitution that might have some relevance to your daily activities. 
That’s usually a tall order, but not today- January 20th- the day specifically named in Section 1 of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution as the date that every president takes [...]

Barack Obama Wins Presidency Today

No, that’s not an old headline- it’s hot off the CJP presses.  
But hasn’t Obama already been elected, you ask?  Not officially.  That’s because of the quirk in American democracy known as indirect election of the president by the Electoral College.  Even though we all voted on Election Day in November, the U.S. president is [...]

He Said/ He Said: Guns

We now know how the Supreme Court feels about guns (load ‘em up, move ‘em in to D.C.!), but how do the candidates feel about the right to bear arms? So glad you asked.
In a nutshell, McCain liked the Heller decision a lot, and Obama, surprisingly, liked it, with qualifications.  Not in a nutshell, [...]

Ban on Guns? SCOTUS says…not so much

  The Supreme Court today ruled that the 32-year-old ban on hand guns in Washington, D.C. is unconstitutional.   Although the decision in the case, called District of Columbia v. Heller, was 5 to 4, judicial experts have described the decision as generally  moderate.
The decision says that the Second Amendment applies to individuals, not just [...]

See Jane Learn: The Right to Bear Arms

In our occasional series,”See Jane Learn,” we acquaint ourselves with one of the Constitution’s 27 amendments, because the first step to fighting for your rights is knowing what they are.
We spoke freely about the First Amendment a few weeks ago. Today we move to the Second Amendment, always important, but [...]

See Jane Learn- Welcome to the Constitution!

Janes, have you ever watched an actor-playing-a-lunatic in a movie being taken into custody and yelling about his “rights”? Do we ever hear sane people in the movies yelling about their constitutional rights? Maybe we should.
CJP thinks the Constitution and its amendments are the most important and least read documents [...]