The Unitary Executive – At the Zenith of His Powers

By Michael D. Peabody, Esq.

Immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, politicians rushed to their podiums to urge people to continue living their lives as normally as possible. If the way of life changed, politicians warned, the terrorists would have won. After the initial shock subsided, most Americans resumed their traveling, shopping, and recreation as they applauded the military response overseas.

Although people gradually stopped scanning the skies for low-flying aircraft, a panic-stricken administration decided, in the interest of national security, that the United States could no longer afford to protect certain Constitutional luxuries. Protection of due process rights, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and other liberties which may have seemed feasible in the bucolic wake of the American Revolution, could not survive the onslaught of global jihad. Read more

The Flushing Remonstrance

By Michael D. Peabody, Esq.

Published in Liberty Magazine – November / December 2005
The steel-and-glass skyline of Manhattan still soars toward the heavens with the confidence of a people born free. But the cradle of this freedom is not found in the luxury of Wall Street or the neon sparkle of Times Square. Instead, it rests in a simple farmhouse located near the No. 7 train.

A short distance away, generations of New Yorkers have jokingly warned of the shadowy figure of an old man with a peg leg seen pacing back and forth near the Bowery at St. Mark’s, the place where his bones lie buried. Read more