Corruption: The Founders Warned Us About Ourselves
“This can only end in despotism.” Benjamin Franklin didn’t offer that as a theory. It was a sentence – and prophetic. He knew exactly what happens when a people trade virtue for vice: liberty dies, and tyranny takes its place. Not by accident. Not by force. But...
Taxing Power: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings
“till not a drop more can be extracted.” That was a warning on taxation from Luther Martin. He predicted government would be so hungry for your money to feed its power, they would squeeze you like “the juice from an orange” – until not a drop...
General Welfare Clause: The Truth They Never Teach
“It would be ABSURD to say … Congress may do what they please.” That was James Madison, obliterating the modern lie that the general Welfare Clause is a blank check for almost unlimited power. But that’s exactly how it’s treated and used today. The general Welfare...