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Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government's Push for a Digital Currency

Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

This push for a digital currency dovetails with the government’s war on cash, which it has been subtly waging for some time now. Much like the war on drugs and ...
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Little Known Episode in U.S. History Explains Executive War Powers

Little Known Episode in U.S. History Explains Executive War Powers

This episode in American history is known as the Pacificus-Helvidius debates, named for the pen names adopted by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively ...
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Principles of '98: Rooted in the American Revolution

Principles of ’98: Rooted in the American Revolution

In response to the hated Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, sometimes referred to as the “Principles of ‘98.”  ...
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The Albany Plan: Benjamin Franklin's Forgotten Call for Colonial Unity

The Albany Plan: Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Call for Colonial Unity

On May 9, 1754 - just about a month before the Albany Congress was set to meet - Benjamin Franklin published his famous Join or Die political cartoon in The ...
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Tench Coxe: Originalism and the Founders' Understanding of the Constitution

Tench Coxe: Originalism and the Founders’ Understanding of the Constitution

If he’s even remembered at all today, people today generally look at Tench Coxe as the founder who forcefully advocated for the natural right to keep and bear arms. That, ...
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Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms

Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms

When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that ...
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The Day the Philadelphia Convention Narrowly Avoided Permanent Adjournment

The Day the Philadelphia Convention Narrowly Avoided Permanent Adjournment

As the story is told today, the Great Compromise is described as a victory for “small states,” when in reality, Sherman considered it a victory for the perpetuation of state ...
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War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812

War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812

Madison's words and actions underscore the original understanding of presidential war powers - that the executive has “no right, in any case, to decide the question” of war and peace ...
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Five Critical Reminders About Liberty and Security from the Founders

Five Critical Reminders About Liberty and Security from the Founders

Today, like every day, is a great day for a reminder of some of the top principles from the founders that we should never, ever forget ...
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The Satirical Genius of Benjamin Franklin's 1774 Letter to Lord North

The Satirical Genius of Benjamin Franklin’s 1774 Letter to Lord North

While many American colonists confronted arbitrary British power and constitutional usurpations with strongly worded resolutions and detailed enumerations of their complaints, Franklin deployed a different weapon - biting sarcasm and ...
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Prelude to Independence: Thomas Jefferson Declares British Acts Null and Void

Prelude to Independence: Thomas Jefferson Declares British Acts Null and Void

Written nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, the pamphlet foreshadowed ideas Jefferson would later develop further. He asserted several fundamental principles that underpin the American constitutional system, including ...
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The Treaty of Paris: How the War for Independence Almost Didn't End

The Treaty of Paris: How the War for Independence Almost Didn’t End

Signed on Sept 3, 1783 - the Treaty of Paris has long been called the formal end to the War for Independence. But the war didn't officially end on that ...