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First Amendment Decision Unrelated to the First Amendment

People often claim that the Supreme Court is “conservative.” Rob Natelson says, “not so fast!”

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The Statist and the Straw Man: Answering Attacks on Tenthers

The sovereignty movement is feared and ridiculed for its independence by weak minded men who consider themselves intelligent, but are really nothing more than altar boys for the State.

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A Re-Write of the Bill of Rights through the Preamble

With the 219th anniversary of the adoption of the document known as Bill of Rights only hours away, every American who has graduated from high school should be able to explain the original intent of the Amendments in ten minutes or less.

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The Constitution Applies to Terrorists

The Constitution is a document that created the federal government, and in so doing, specified powers granted to and denied that entity. It does not apply to a person or group of people, but rather to the government itself.

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The Drug War vs the Bill of Rights

In America, our liberties our ostensibly protected by the U.S. Constitution and particularly the Bill of Rights. How much has the drug war compromised our Constitutional rights? Let us consider a countdown, starting with the Tenth Amendment and moving to First.

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A Day to Remember

No, we won’t have a national celebration this Bill of Rights Day. But we can privately contemplate what we’ve lost – and vow to restore the America that was meant to be.

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The Vision of the Founders: Dead and Gone

Bill of Rights Day is Tuesday, December 15th. But as Kevin Gutzman points out in this article, it’s not a day of celebration. Instead, it should be a day of mourning for the death of decentralized self-government.

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Does the Constitution Contain a Right to Privacy?

The Constitution was created to spell out the limited rights or powers given to the federal government. And it was clearly understood that the government had no powers that weren’t authorized in the Constitution.

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Kevin Gutzman: Freedom vs the Courts

In this podcast, Kevin Gutzman talks about the Incorporation Doctrine and why liberty is best protected under the founders’ vision of federalism.

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Freedom vs Consolidated Government

Sam Adams, on the anniversary of his birthday, wisdom on state sovereignty.

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Why a Bill of Rights?

The Ninth and Tenth Amendments mean absolutely nothing today as Americans have developed a level of naive trust for Congress, the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court that would have astonished the founders, a trust that will lead to our undoing as a great nation.

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