TJ Martinell
Reporter, Blogger, Researcher
TJ [send him email] is an award-winning reporter from Washington state. He has written for the Tenth Amendment Center since 2014 on a wide assortment of constitutional issues, particularly the right to keep and bear arms. He lives in the heart of Cascadia and hosts the weekly Mountain Pass Podcast.
Latest Articles
James Madison’s Speech that Set the Stage for the Bill of Rights
Limited or Absolute Power: Warnings from Anti-Federalist Agrippa
Mercy Otis Warren: Constitution Would “Terminate in the Most Uncontrolled Despotism”
Deciphering the Commander-in-Chief Clause
What The Constitution Means By “Declare War”
Informing the Founders: A Short History of Standing Armies in England
“If we adopted the attitude of the Founders, all guns would be ‘undetectable.'”
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Novel
The Stringers
Decades in the future, America is in the midst of a new Prohibition Era. This time, the contraband is information. Free press has been replaced with journalism licenses and a formidable federal censorship agency. Reading newspapers is now a crime.
The Stringers Book 2
The Informers
Roy Farrington continues the search for his imprisoned father and quickly rises in the ranks of his newspaper, even as he maintains an uneasy alliance with his old friend Casey Novak, now a federal censorship officer.
Novel
Men Who Walk Alone
The year is 1934. Rampant crime. Ethnic feuds. Gangland violence. Such is life in Beverly, a small East Coast town reeling from economic deprivation in the midst of the Great Depression.