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The Senate: More Warnings Ignored?
A permanent aristocracy of sorts - despite federalist assurances to the contrary - with senators mostly serving for life - that's what many anti-federalists warned we'd get with the structure ...
Record Number of Banks Working With Marijuana Businesses Despite Federal Prohibition
A record number of banks and credit unions are doing business with state-legal marijuana businesses despite ongoing federal cannabis prohibition - and attempts by the Federal Reserve to help enforce ...
Sallust: The Roman Historian Who Taught the Founders to Believe in Conspiracies
His emphasis on the importance of virtue, his critique of political corruption and conspiracy, and his recognition of the fragility of republics have resonated with American leaders and thinkers throughout ...
The Founders and the Constitution: George Mason
George Mason of Virginia helped construct the Constitution. He then opposed ratifying the very document he helped construct. Through both courses of action, he strongly influenced the Constitution’s final form ...
Today in History: Boston Resolution Against Helping Redcoats Passed
On September 27, 1774, a meeting of the Committees of Correspondence of Boston and a dozen neighboring towns passed a resolution condemning any colonists assisting the Red Coats and calling ...
A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other
As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better ...
Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke: Another Forgotten Influence on Our Founding Fathers
while Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, may not be a household name in American history, his ideas were instrumental in shaping the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the ...
The Founders and the Constitution: Gouverneur Morris
Through his eloquence, Morris converted a mere legal instrument into one of the most memorable documents in the history of the world ...
Thomas Paine’s Return to America
Paine left France in a dejected state. Despite his drive to see France exude the same republican principles that America had, his vision was subverted on two major occasions ...
A Republic. But They Didn’t Keep it
First of all, considering the fact that we live under the largest government in history, it should be obvious the Republic wasn’t kept. But there’s a lot more to the ...
New Mexico “Emergency” Gun Ban a Violation of the Right of Self Defense
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham's "emergency" order banning the carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County is a violation of the natural rights of the people, and ...
The Founders and the Constitution: George Washington
Our first president also had to address some constitutional questions whose answers were unclear. But the fact that he provided answers doesn’t justify accusing him of usurpation ...
