“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In the Appendix to Common Sense, first published on January 10, 1776 – Thomas Paine wrote about the “birthday of a new world,” with this timeless reminder that fits today – and every single day of the year: “We have it in our power to begin the...
How should a free people respond to unconstitutional acts? Most people today use three strategies, none of which reflect how the founders told us to respond to usurpations of power. 1. CALL CONGRESS! First, people try pressuring Congress. They’ll organize campaigns to...
If we truly want to build a real “land of the free,” it’s essential to understand the source of our problems – to “strike the root,” so to speak. Using the wisdom and warnings of leading founders and old revolutionaries – we can point to consolidation, or...
The national debt is a national curse. That’s not just our view, it’s how James Madison described it. I go on the principle that a Public Debt is a Public curse and in a Rep. Govt. a greater than in any other. That’s because, as Madison put it, debts are one of a...
Despite what the so-called experts want you to believe – the American Revolution was not the War for Independence. And the root cause wasn’t merely “taxation without representation.” Understanding the history of colonial opposition and resistance to the largest...