Will Latest Foreign Policy Executive Orders Drive the Country to More War?
In the wee hours of the morning on Nov 9, 2016, as the returns from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania indicated a Trump victory, a wave of shock crashed over American politics. Then there was a second wave of astonishment in the wake that election night victory: the...
James Madison on the Constitution and War Powers
James Madison, excerpted from “Political Observations,” April 20, 1795 in Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, Volume IV, page 491. Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every...
America’s Plunge from Republic to Empire
Wendy McElroy, Future of Freedom Foundation It is difficult to pinpoint the moment at which America crossed from Republic into Empire but guidelines exist for doing so. In his treatise Rise of Empire (1952), the libertarian journalist Garet Garrett declared the “first...