The Bill of Rights was never intended to be a list of individual rights, but a list of things the federal government could not do.
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It’s not About Political Parties. It’s About Liberty
Thomas Jefferson: “the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Governmentâ€
What is a Right?
Andrew Napolitano: “Charity comes from your own heart, not from the government spending your money. When we pay our taxes to the government and it gives that money away, that’s not charity, that’s welfare.”
Early Pennsylvania, Nullifying the Way to Freedom
Personal Liberty Laws, Nullification, and resistance to slavery in 19th Century Pennsylvania.
The Census and the Constitution
The Census Bureau tells us that this year, it will use a shorter questionnaire, consisting of only 10 questions. From what I see, only one of them serves the constitutional purpose of enumeration
Small Things Grow Great by Concord
John Dickinson, the “penman of the Revolution,” on the anniversary of his death – read the first of his famous “Letters from a Farmer.”
The Untold History of Nullification: Resisting Slavery
Derek Sherriff on the hidden history of how 19th-century abolitionists used nullification to fight for freedom.
Violating your Rights, Then and Now
Thomas Paine: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
ResistDC: The State Authority and Anti-Racketeering Act
Nullification is much more than a mere rhetorical statement issued by a state legislature. At its very core, it’s mass civil disobedience to the federal government by the people of a state with the backing of the state government.
Nullification: It’s Official.
Nullification is not the petitioning of the federal government to start doing or to stop doing anything. Nullification doesn’t depend on any federal law being repealed. Nullification does not require permission from any person or institution outside of one’s own state.
On the Constitution, Beware the Word “Clearly”
In response to a recent op-ed in the LA Times, Rob Natelson writes: “The claim that the Founding Fathers would have thought the Constitution allows Congress to impose health care mandates is little short of absurd.”
June 25th: 7 Year Anniversary
31%
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Funded
$6478
Cleared
Cleared
$14522
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$21000
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Tenther Radio!
- Tenther Radio Episode #99: Government Gone Wild
- Tenther Radio Episode #98: Nullification Goes Mainstream
- Tenther Radio Episode #97: The Importance of Decentralization
- Tenther Radio Episode #96: The #NoDrones Movement is Growing
- Tenther Radio Episode #95: Real ID Backlash, and How to Enforce Nullification Bills
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