Founding Principles
No Obedience is Due: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774
“No obedience is due from this province to either or any part of the acts above-mentioned, but that they be rejected as the attempts of a wicked administration to enslave America.” Today in history – September 9, 1774 – from the Suffolk Resolves, drafted...
Thomas Paine’s Forgotten Paper Money Takedown
“Money is Money, and Paper is Paper. All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise.” With those words, Thomas Paine went after what he saw as one of the greatest scams in history: governments claiming that paper is money. Through a series of...
The Ancient Playbook: Politics as the Science of Fraud
“Politics is the science of fraud.” And politicians? They’re the “professors of that science.” Richard Henry Lee wasn’t talking about a few bad apples. He was warning about the nature of the system itself. It has been the same playbook throughout history....
Not a Gift from Government: Our Natural Rights Foundation
Rights are not gifts from government. They don’t come from documents – not a constitution, not even a bill of rights. You have rights because you exist. But government has never been a big fan of that view. The ruling class prefers a population that thinks...