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Liberty OR Empire: You Can’t Have Both
The root cause is always the same: Consolidate power. The eventual destruction of liberty and final collapse are guaranteed ...
How the Founders Explained Limits on the Federal Government
The consistency and clarity of these representations, the authoritative status of their authors, and the likelihood that the ratifying public relied on them all underscore their value in constitutional interpretation ...
Writs, Riots, and Redcoats: Hancock’s Spark of the Revolution
In an early confrontation between the customs officials and John Hancock, the British hoped that flexing their muscles would teach the colonists a lesson and cow them into submission ...
Missing the Marque: Reviving a Forgotten Constitutional Clause
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11ย of the Constitution authorizes Congress to โgrant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.โ ...
John Taylor’s Forgotten Warning about Judges Rewriting the Constitution.
โIt is ... the natural enemy of our home-bred form of government, and ought to awaken the resistance of all legislative and judicial departments, and the detestation of every person ...
First State of the Union: George Washington’s Blueprint Betrayed
The gap between Washington's standard and today's reality isn't an accident. It's not drift. It's a complete betrayal of the blueprint he laid out on January 8, 1790 ...
Be at War with Your Vices: Benjamin Franklin’s New Year’s Challenge
Benjamin Franklin's timeless lessons, drawn from his legendary Poor Richardโs Almanack, continue to inspire and guide us nearly 300 years after its first publication ...
A Single Step: The Ancient Wisdom that Won American Independence
From the Revolution back to ancient Greece, the Founders knew the score: once government seizes power, it keeps growing and it never gives it back ...
The Regulator War of 1771: A Forgotten Rebellion Against Corruption
There are many events in the history of the formation of this Republic that go unnoticed, unremembered, and unheralded. Today is a chance to remedy that and remember the Regulators ...
Bill of Rights: Born From the Fight Over Delegated and Reserved Powers
That fight got settled with a deal. And the deal's centerpiece - the answer that saved ratification - was the Tenth Amendment. Understanding this forgotten debate reveals how the entire ...
Consolidation: George Mason’s Core Anti-Federalist Warning
Masonโs primary objection? Consolidation - the fundamental shift from a union of sovereign states (a confederation) to a centralized national government. This, he warned, was a rejection of the principles ...
True Loyalty vs Sedition and Treason
Decades before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams understood the foundation of what became the American Revolution. It was a complete rejection of the ancient mode of humanity - allegiance ...
