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Incidental Powers in the Constitution

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 ...
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Totally Dissolved: The Forgotten Vote for Independence

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 ...
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Five Constitutional Truths They Don't Want You to Know

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 ...
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The Real National Emergency

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 ...
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Are President Trump's Tariff Orders Constitutional?

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 ...
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Corruption: The Founders Warned Us About Ourselves

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 ...
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Virginia Declaration of Rights: The Legal Right to Alter or Abolish Government

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 ...
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Live Free or Die: Joseph Warren Meant Every Word

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 ...
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The Founders on What Really Makes a "Land of the Free"

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 ...
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James Madison's Speech that Set the Stage for the Bill of Rights

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 ...
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National Debt and the Destruction of Liberty

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 ...
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The National Bank That Breached the Articles of Confederation

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.” ...