Constitutional Analysis • Civic Education • Investigative Research
Tag: Government
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The Anti-Federalists and their important role during Ratification By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. On September 27, 1787, an anonymous writer in the New York Journal issued a pointed warning to the American public. The newly drafted Constitution, he argued, was not the unambiguous triumph its supporters…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. Introduction The Federalist Papers represent one of the most significant collections of political writing in American history. Comprising 85 essays written between 1787 and 1788, the papers were designed with a singular purpose: to advocate for the ratification of the United…
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The government refuses to secure your data By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. The Only Transparent Window Into a Closed Industry California’s mandatory data broker registry is the clearest public signal available that some brokers are actively selling or sharing American personal data to actors outside the…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. It was gun control. Not taxation. Not representation. Not the abstract grievances that get cleaned up and packaged into textbook summaries. The fighting at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, was triggered by a British military operation to seize colonial…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. Most people carry a simple mental model of how banks work. You deposit money. The bank stores it. Someone else borrows it. The bank earns a spread. Clean, logical, contained. That model is wrong. Banks do not lend out deposits. They…
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Most people treat the Constitution as a government document. They think of it as something Washington produced, something courts interpret, something officials swear to uphold. That framing is understandable. It is also wrong. The Constitution is not a product of government. Government is a product of the Constitution. And the Constitution itself is a product…
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Something significant is happening to the legal definition of terrorism in the United States. What began as a narrowly scoped framework targeting foreign actors with demonstrable ties to organized violence has been systematically broadened. The trajectory is not subtle. Post-2001 legislation, executive orders, and internal agency reclassifications have steadily expanded the category of “domestic terrorist”…
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Understanding case law is essential to understanding how law actually works. A statute may state something in plain terms, but cases fill in what those terms mean when they collide with real-world facts. Case law answers the questions that statutes leave open, resolves conflicts between competing rules, and sometimes creates rights and obligations that no…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. American governance was not assembled by accident. The framers of the Constitution built a system from first principles, shaped by direct experience with concentrated authority and a clear understanding of what it produces. The result was a structure built on three…
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Understanding American government is not about memorizing dates, clauses, or the names attached to them. It is about recognizing structure. How power is created. How it is constrained. Where the individual stands in relation to it. Most people encounter the system in fragments. A right here. A court ruling there. A clause pulled out of…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. “The dupes of other men.” Noah Webster told us exactly what happens when people join a political party – they become mindless puppets of people in power. His timeless warning that “faction is death to liberty” is one we can’t afford…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | Margin Of The Law(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. The Oath and What It Means Every sworn defender of the Republic remembers the moment they raised their right hand and spoke those words: “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”…