America Rebuilt the British System the Founders Fought to Escape
โAn elective despotism is not the government we fought for.โ Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of unchecked power even in a system where the people get to choose their leaders. But what if you were told that’s just what we ended up with? Because the...
Resist Them: Samuel Adams and the Forgotten Duty of a Free People
โResist them.โย Nearly five years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams demanded that the people resist arbitrary power, warning them that the alternative was to tamely submit, sit idly by, and hope for the best – a recipe for total tyranny. For...
Not a Gift from Government: Our Natural Rights Foundation
Rights are not gifts from government. They donโt 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...