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Were the Anti-Federalists Right?
George Mason gave us the final diagnosis. We'd end up with one of two results. And either one would be a deadly disease for liberty ...
Tariffs: The First Economic Battle Under the Constitution
This was, as James Madison called it, the subject of “the greatest magnitude” - demanding, he insisted, their first attention. Yet today, this foundational debate, and all its messy details, ...
Ancient Rome and the Constitution
You cannot fully understand the Constitution without knowing how the Founders were affected by the saga of ancient Rome. Part I: Rome in Founding-Era Culture Last year, the Internet resounded ...
President Trump, the Constitution, and the National Guard Cases
Significantly, none of these Supreme Court decisions acknowledged the representations made to the ratifying public (and to the states) about reserved state war powers or the limits on the federal ...
Continental Association: The Economic Shutdown that Birthed the Union
On October 20th, 1774, the First Continental Congress made it official when they passed the Continental Association, long considered the first of the founding four documents along with the Declaration ...
Forgotten Foundation: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
It is one of the most important, and most forgotten, documents of the American Revolution, providing a foundation for both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights ...
Unconstitutional “Laws” Don’t Exist
James Otis helped launch the Revolution on one foundational principle: unconstitutional acts do not rise to the level of “law.” ...
Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
Who gets the credit for calling the most important convention of all—the gathering that drafted our U.S. Constitution? Writers most often claim the Confederation Congress did, citing its resolution of February 21, 1787 ...
The Most Dangerous “Invasion” We Face
Say "invasion," and people picture foreign armies crossing a border. To the Founders, a far more dangerous invasion came from within. They used that same word for what happens when ...
Battlefield America: The Federal War on the “Enemy Within”
For years, the government has warned of domestic terrorism, erected surveillance, and trained law enforcement to equate anti-government views (that is, exercising your constitutional rights) with extremism. Now that groundwork ...
America Rebuilt the British System the Founders Fought to Escape
The system we live under today is virtually the same - in practice - as the British system the founders fought a long, bloody war to secede from ...
Resist Them: Samuel Adams and the Forgotten Duty of a Free People
Nearly five years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams demanded that the people resist arbitrary power, warning them that the alternative was to tamely submit, sit idly by, and ...
