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Thomas Jefferson’s Solution from the Revolution
"A nullity" and "we declare these acts void" This was the bold conclusion about British Acts that Thomas Jefferson came to in his powerful 1774 pamphlet, A Summary View of ...
Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
This push for a digital currency dovetails with the government’s war on cash, which it has been subtly waging for some time now. Much like the war on drugs and ...
Little Known Episode in U.S. History Explains Executive War Powers
This episode in American history is known as the Pacificus-Helvidius debates, named for the pen names adopted by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively ...
Principles of ’98: Rooted in the American Revolution
In response to the hated Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, sometimes referred to as the “Principles of ‘98.” ...
The Albany Plan: Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Call for Colonial Unity
On May 9, 1754 - just about a month before the Albany Congress was set to meet - Benjamin Franklin published his famous Join or Die political cartoon in The ...
Tench Coxe: Originalism and the Founders’ Understanding of the Constitution
If he’s even remembered at all today, people today generally look at Tench Coxe as the founder who forcefully advocated for the natural right to keep and bear arms. That, ...
Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that ...
The Day the Philadelphia Convention Narrowly Avoided Permanent Adjournment
As the story is told today, the Great Compromise is described as a victory for “small states,” when in reality, Sherman considered it a victory for the perpetuation of state ...
War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812
Madison's words and actions underscore the original understanding of presidential war powers - that the executive has “no right, in any case, to decide the question” of war and peace ...
Five Critical Reminders About Liberty and Security from the Founders
Today, like every day, is a great day for a reminder of some of the top principles from the founders that we should never, ever forget ...
The Satirical Genius of Benjamin Franklin’s 1774 Letter to Lord North
While many American colonists confronted arbitrary British power and constitutional usurpations with strongly worded resolutions and detailed enumerations of their complaints, Franklin deployed a different weapon - biting sarcasm and ...
Prelude to Independence: Thomas Jefferson Declares British Acts Null and Void
Written nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, the pamphlet foreshadowed ideas Jefferson would later develop further. He asserted several fundamental principles that underpin the American constitutional system, including ...
