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Incidental Powers in the Constitution
Familiarity with eighteenth-century Anglo-American law facilitates understanding of the Constitution. The doctrine of incidental authority offers one example. However, subsequent history also demonstrates that ignorance of Founding-era law can lead to serious ...
Totally Dissolved: The Forgotten Vote for Independence
We celebrate Independence on the Fourth of July. But the actual vote to secede from the British Empire and become “free and independent states” - happened on July 2nd, 1776 ...
Five Constitutional Truths They Don’t Want You to Know
Let's examine five constitutional truths that government-run schools almost never teach - because if they did, we wouldn’t be living under the largest government in history ...
The Real National Emergency
In 2025 alone, the U.S. has launched airstrikes in Yemen (Operation Rough Rider), bombed Houthi-controlled ports and radar installations (killing scores of civilians), deployed greater numbers of troops and multiple aircraft carriers ...
Are President Trump’s Tariff Orders Constitutional?
The Constitution was drafted and adopted in the context of Founding-era law. Under that law (as under modern law) an agent could not further delegate his powers without the consent ...
Corruption: The Founders Warned Us About Ourselves
The founders - and the political thinkers they studied - understood this brutal truth: no system of government can survive the corruption of its own people. Not a monarchy. Not ...
Virginia Declaration of Rights: The Legal Right to Alter or Abolish Government
This wasn’t the language of a protest movement or the fine print of a petition. The Virginia Declaration of Rights didn’t ask permission. It made the right to alter or ...
Live Free or Die: Joseph Warren Meant Every Word
Despite the fact that Dr. Joseph Warren is of the greatest American war heroes in history, he’s mostly ignored today - especially his political views ...
The Founders on What Really Makes a “Land of the Free”
Freedom isn't about having benevolent masters. It's not about government officials who promise to be nice - or even those who actually do. It's about power itself - who has ...
James Madison’s Speech that Set the Stage for the Bill of Rights
On June 8 1789, the “Father of the Constitution” James Madison rose on the floor of Congress to propose a series of significant amendments, setting the stage for what would ...
National Debt and the Destruction of Liberty
Again and again, leading voices from the founding generation warned that a government hooked on debt is a system headed for disaster ...
The National Bank That Breached the Articles of Confederation
Despite having no express authority to do so, Congress created a national bank under the Articles of Confederation by invoking an invented doctrine of “inherent sovereign authority.” ...
