Joshua Mawhorter

Joshua Mawhorter has been a junior high and high school teacher for the past five years in the subjects of government/economics and US history. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) and a master’s in political science from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). He publishes content on his YouTube channel Political Factions and is working on a Mawhorter Finance channel. He also teaches regularly at his local church in the areas of theology, the Old Testament, church history, apologetics, and philosophy. He can be contacted at mawhorterfinancialcoach@gmail.com.

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A Useless Legal Standard: "I know it when I see it"

Politics

11/01/2021Power & MarketJoshua Mawhorter

“I know it when I see it...” (Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964, n.p.)

This fairly well-known statement (probably said before) came from the concurring opinion of Justice Potter Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964). This First Amendment case eventually came before the Supreme Court and dealt with...

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1789: The First Thing the New American Government Did Was Raise Taxes

Blog10/25/2021Joshua Mawhorter

It turned out that taxation with representation could be just as oppressive as taxation without representation. Or worse.

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Why Fans of Censorship Are Obsessed with Stories about Yelling "Fire!" in a Theater

Blog10/23/2021Joshua Mawhorter

The fact that such a vacuous and irrelevant example became such a compelling argument for the government restriction of freedom of speech in many other areas is disturbing.

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