Loyalist № 15. The Framers believed that regular reviews would guard against military overreach. Unlike Britain – where oversight grew out of war, oppression, and hard-won tradition – America built its safeguards on reason alone. But history suggests that civic memory, not argument, is the most enduring foundation of liberty.
Loyalist № 13. Hamilton called the judiciary the “least dangerous” branch. Yet history played out very differently. From Marbury to Dobbs, the U.S. Supreme Court has shaped the political order as deeply as any elected branch. Its real power lay not only in constitutional design, but in popular legitimacy – something the Westminster experience shows cannot be engineered, only inherited.
Loyalist № 11. The U.S. Presidency, once a modest office constrained by law, has swelled into an entity with near-monarchical power – issuing thousands of executive orders, waging undeclared wars, and reshaping global treaties without Congress. The very safeguards that Hamilton extolled now seem weakened, raising the question: has the Republic strayed too far from its founding principles?
Loyalist № 10. In the hands of one who wears not the Crown but lusts after it, the noble prerogatives of mercy and pardon turn to malignancy. Not unlike the failure of Reconstruction following the end of the Civil War, the pardoning of the January 6th insurrectionists who sought to overturn the constitutional order of the United States foreshadows a long and terrible night ahead.
Loyalist № 8. The Electoral College was meant to shield the presidency from partisanship and populism – but quickly became their tool. Federalist No. 68 offers a window into the original design and its failure, raising deeper questions: What can Westminster democracy teach us about balancing local and national interests? And have Canadians unknowingly created an Electoral College of Our own?
Loyalist № 4. Amid global instability and American unpredictability, Canada must move beyond its dependence on the United States. Just as John Jay saw shared values as the Union’s foundation, Canada should strengthen ties with Australia, New Zealand, and the UK through CANZUK – uniting Loyalist nations under the Crown to safeguard Our economies and political independence.