Today in History: Continental Congress Approves Final Draft of the Articles of Confederation
On Nov. 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress finalized the Articles of Confederation after 16 months of debate. The Articles were then sent to the states for consideration, and once ratified, formally united the 13 states into a confederation that retained for...
Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You canโt. When you consider all the ways โwe the peopleโ are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and...
John Locke’s Case Against Absolute Rule
For absolute monarchs, John Locke was โthe most dangerous man in the world,โ as I explained in a recentย article. Lockeโs case against absolutism literally revolutionized the world. Here is a summary of that case, which he made in hisย Two Treatises of Government. The...