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The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs
The President reads Congress's delegation of authority correctly, but Congress's delegation goes beyond that permitted in the Constitution ...
What Really Makes a “Land of the Free”
In his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson defined a true “land of the free.” In doing so, he exposed the trap governments use to establish tyranny, and ...
A Gift to be Thankful For: Our Natural Rights Foundation
The Founders left us something extraordinary. Not just a country. Not just a Constitution. They handed down a complete understanding of natural rights and the law of nature - principles ...
Enemy Within: The Greatest Danger to Liberty
The Founders knew the score. History is littered with power-hungry rulers who use deception. They stage false flags. They manufacture crises or exploit real ones. The worst of them pretend ...
Ignorance and Freedom Cannot Coexist
Getting the job done won’t be quick and it won’t be easy. We're all victims of a government-run “education” system. So there's no shame in starting from scratch. ...
What FDR Did to Our Money
When we examine what his paper-money system has done to the value of people’s money, we can understand why the Framers and our American ancestors were so ardently opposed to ...
Were the Anti-Federalists Right?
George Mason gave us the final diagnosis. We'd end up with one of two results. And either one would be a deadly disease for liberty ...
Tariffs: The First Economic Battle Under the Constitution
This was, as James Madison called it, the subject of “the greatest magnitude” - demanding, he insisted, their first attention. Yet today, this foundational debate, and all its messy details, ...
Ancient Rome and the Constitution
You cannot fully understand the Constitution without knowing how the Founders were affected by the saga of ancient Rome. Part I: Rome in Founding-Era Culture Last year, the Internet resounded ...
President Trump, the Constitution, and the National Guard Cases
Significantly, none of these Supreme Court decisions acknowledged the representations made to the ratifying public (and to the states) about reserved state war powers or the limits on the federal ...
Continental Association: The Economic Shutdown that Birthed the Union
On October 20th, 1774, the First Continental Congress made it official when they passed the Continental Association, long considered the first of the founding four documents along with the Declaration ...
Forgotten Foundation: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
It is one of the most important, and most forgotten, documents of the American Revolution, providing a foundation for both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights ...
