Limited or Absolute Power: Warnings from Anti-Federalist Agrippa
The Anti-Federalist writer Agrippa powerfully expressed many of the same reservations about the Constitution as other opponents – that it would create a consolidated government leading to a loss of liberty. But unlike most others, Agrippa was also concerned with...
A Positive Feedback Loop of Power-Grabbing
The classical liberal philosophy expounded by John Locke and many of the American founders was a brilliant attempt to abolish government by the principle of “might makes right.” They wanted to convert government from an arbitrary force over the people into something...
The Real Enforcement Mechanism for the Constitution
Almost everything people learn about how the Constitution is supposed to be enforced is wrong. As a result, we live under the largest government in history, and it’s only going to keep getting worse without a huge change of course. CONSTITUTIONS DON’T ENFORCE...