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The Real Constitution They Don’t Want You to Know About
For the "experts" and politicians - the Tenth Amendment is never the right answer ...
Trenchard and Gordon: Forgotten Influences on the Founders
Did you know that a survey of libraries and newspapers from the years leading up to the Declaration of Independence showed that John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon were more widely ...
Alexander Hamilton’s Biggest Big Government Plan
Alexander Hamilton had a lot of big government plans for the United States, but his craziest plan may have been his proposal for an 11-point plan for government that he ...
AUMF Reform Will Not Restore Proper Constitutional War Powers
As they've been used, these AUMFs themselves are an unconstitutional delegation of war powers to the executive branch ...
We the Exploited: The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power
For years now, and with little real oversight or restrictions, the government has been compiling massive databases comprised of all manner of sensitive information on the citizenry ...
Today in History: Continental Congress Approves Final Draft of the Articles of Confederation
On Nov. 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress finalized the Articles of Confederation after 16 months of debate ...
Obsta Principiis: Have We Waited too Long to Save Our Constitution and Our Freedom?
This was the alarm sounded by our Founding Fathers regarding the “silent and gradual” encroachment of despotism into the land of liberty. But our Founders didn’t coin that phrase; in ...
Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America: Voting Will Not Save Us
Politics is a reality show, America’s favorite form of entertainment, dominated by money and profit, imagery and spin, hype and personality and guaranteed to ensure that nothing in the way ...
Federal Power Outside the Constitution?
The doctrine of inherent sovereign authority is based on a logical fallacy—the fallacy that logicians call by its Latin name, petitio principii. The English title is “begging the question.” ...
How “Pope Night” Turned into a Protest Against the Stamp Act
Pope Night, as the New England colonists called it, was initially a rather somber observance to reinforce Protestant values and uplift the British monarchy, but it morphed into a night ...
Propaganda: Calling it Inflation Rather than Depreciation
The founding generation has a much better word for it: depreciation. That is, when the supply of money is increased - its purchasing power decreases, resulting in price increases for ...
Samuel von Pufendorf: A Lasting, Though Forgotten, Influence on Our Founding Fathers
In this monumental work, Pufendorf explored the concept of natural law, arguing that certain ethical principles were inherent in human nature and that governments should be formed to protect these ...
