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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.” ...
Patrick Henry’s Virginia Resolves of 1765: Spark of the Revolution
The British had just passed the hated Stamp Act. But in Virginia, a 29-year-old freshman legislator named Patrick Henry pushed back - hard. His Virginia Resolves didn’t just protest a ...
Thomas Jefferson’s Greatest Fear: The Federal Judiciary and the Death of Liberty
Thomas Jefferson didn't trust judges or the judicial branch. And neither should you ...
Fear: The Engine of Power
From ancient empires to modern regimes, the story never changes. Government power always expands fastest through fear. Fear is the tool, the trigger, the weapon. It’s the permanent excuse for ...
The Influence of Machiavelli on the Founding Fathers of the United States
Far from being merely the author of The Prince, a treatise often associated with ruthless political maneuvering, Machiavelli also penned Discourses on Livy, a profound examination of republican government and civic virtue ...
