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How British Gun Control was the Spark that Started the War for Independence
It was gun control. That’s what kicked off the fighting at Lexington and Concord - and started the War for Independence ...
Tax Resistance and the Birth of the American Revolution
On April 18, 1689, eighty-six years and a day before the “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord, the people of Boston and surrounding towns rose up and ...
Taxing Power: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings
Long before the Sixteenth Amendment and the rise of federal income taxes, Martin warned that the new government’s power to tax would concentrate control in the hands of a distant, ...
General Welfare Clause: The Truth They Never Teach
The general Welfare clause had a clear, limited meaning when the Constitution was ratified - and both Madison and Jefferson warned exactly what would happen if it got twisted into ...
Nondelegation: The Constitutional Principle Almost Everyone Ignores
today, we’re living with the consequences - because one of the Constitution’s most essential principles has been ignored, abandoned, and almost entirely forgotten: the nondelegation doctrine ...
How Party Politics Destroys Independent Thought and Liberty
Noah Webster didn’t mince words. Over 200 years ago, he saw the warning signs we still ignore today - the danger of trading truth and principle for party loyalty ...
Not Just Bad Policy: The Founders Called it Treason and War
When government repeatedly goes beyond the limits of the Constitution, it’s not just an innocent mistake - it’s a kind of war waged against the sovereignty, or final authority, of ...
Three Pillars of Power: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings
In his essay Genuine Information, he outlined the many ways he believed the proposed system would accelerate the consolidation of power. Among these dangers, he singled out three provisions as ...
We Warned. They Ignored. Fake 2nd Amendment “Protection” Act Was a Scam
In 2022, we warned that Wyoming’s “Second Amendment Protection Act” was nothing more than political theater - a facade meant to fool gun owners into thinking their rights were being ...
Lysander Spooner’s Case Against Judicial Supremacy
Spooner offered a series of powerful insights and warnings - many of which echoed the words of the Founders themselves. These principles once formed the bedrock of American constitutional understanding ...
The Real Root Cause of the American Revolution
Think the American Revolution was just about taxes, tea parties, and representation? Think again ...
Taking Rights Seriously
The world is filled with self-evident truths — truisms — that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the ...
