“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.”
You can’t comply your way out of tyranny. This principle – central to the American Revolution – has been almost totally forgotten and ignored. And it was also forcefully repeated and reiterated a century later by Lysander Spooner. The following are the top...
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...
With reports of mask mandates coming back – and predictions of them becoming widespread in the near future – we’re glad to see a pretty significant number of people posting things online like: “only if we let them. DO NOT COMPLY!”...
With an enforcement deadline looming at the end of May, potentially affecting millions of stabilizing braces, the new ATF rule is – as the founders told us – a test or an “experiment of your disposition.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its “Final Rule” on...
Did the Constitution fail? A lot of people think it did. This popular quote by Lysander Spooner sums up the thoughts of many. “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we...