History
The Great Bypass: How the Constitution Was Built to Sideline the States
“This Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies, states, in their political capacity.” With that one sentence, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth identified the single most important and least understood feature of the Constitution. It wasn’t just a...
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...
Forgotten Foundation: The Story of Small Things Grow Great by Concord
How do you beat the biggest government in history? The founders did it, but they knew there’s no silver bullet. The path to liberty isn’t flashy. It’s slow. Deliberate. Relentless. In 1767, the “Penman of the American Revolution” found the key in ancient...
The Pen, the Phone, and the Presidency: A Roman Warning Against the Rise of the American Caesar
In the fading light of the Roman Republic, as senators dithered and people cried out for relief from chaos, an ambitious few found the imperial mantle irresistible. What began as temporary “emergency powers” for the good of the republic soon hardened into permanent,...