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The Founders on the Source of Rights and an Essential Reading List

The Founders on the Source of Rights and an Essential Reading List

Natural rights come from your creator and are inherent to your humanity. Even civil rights are built upon this foundation ...
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Reversing Gresham's Law: How Sound Money Could Drive Out Fiat

Reversing Gresham’s Law: How Sound Money Could Drive Out Fiat

Gresham’s Law is an economic maxim that states “good money” drives out “bad money.” But under the right circumstances, it might be possible to reverse Gresham and do the opposite ...
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The Best and Worst States for Sound Money

The Best and Worst States for Sound Money

The newly released 2025 Sound Money Index has identified Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alaska as the states with the most favorable policies toward constitutional sound money, while Vermont, Maine, and California take ...
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Forgotten Foundation of the Revolution: Letters from a Farmer

Forgotten Foundation of the Revolution: Letters from a Farmer

John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania rank among the most important essays espousing the cause of liberty during the American Revolution. Yet, today - few people have read ...
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Ignorance vs. Freedom: Reclaim the Constitution and Liberty

Ignorance vs. Freedom: Reclaim the Constitution and Liberty

For far too long politicians, bureaucrats, judges, law professors, and chattering pundits have told us how the Constitution should work - instead of the other way around. The political class ...
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The Cornerstone of a Free Society: Everyone Should be Armed

The Cornerstone of a Free Society: Everyone Should be Armed

The Founders and Old Revolutionaries knew an armed society was essential to preserving liberty - because they lived it firsthand ...
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The Sermon That Laid the Groundwork for the American Revolution

The Sermon That Laid the Groundwork for the American Revolution

Preceding the War for Independence by decades, Mayhew challenged the traditional notion of blind obedience to authority, basing his argument on both scripture and reason. His ideas not only shaped ...
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South Carolina Declares "Tariff of Abominations" Null and Void

South Carolina Declares “Tariff of Abominations” Null and Void

Conventional wisdom holds South Carolina’s decision to nullify the tariffs was a disaster and a failure. But was it? While proponents of nullification certainly can’t claim total victory – the ...
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Gitmo Continues to Haunt

Gitmo Continues to Haunt

All Americans should care about this. The feds are subject to the Constitution and the rule of law. They cannot evade or avoid either for unpopular defendants or for political ...
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Tench Coxe: Forgotten Federalist who Helped Influence Ratification of the Constitution

Tench Coxe: Forgotten Federalist who Helped Influence Ratification of the Constitution

His writing serves as a valuable resource today as we seek to learn the original, legal meaning of the Constitution as understood by the founders and ratifiers, and the limits ...
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States vs. Feds: The 10th Amendment Battle Over Conscription in the War of 1812

States vs. Feds: The 10th Amendment Battle Over Conscription in the War of 1812

By 1814, the war was not going well for the United States. The British invaded North America, and in August of that year, burned Washington D.C. Meanwhile, the U.S. faced ...
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Remembering John Dickinson: "One of the great worthies of the revolution"

Remembering John Dickinson: “One of the great worthies of the revolution”

To honor his birthday - November 13, 1732 - we’re diving into the life and legacy of one of America’s most underrated and ignored founding fathers ...