A Day to Remember: Bill of Rights Day
by Harry Browne This article was originally published on December 12, 2002. For more Harry Browne archives, visit www.harrybrowne.org Dec. 15 should be a national holiday. No, it’s not Earth Day, or Martin Luther King Day, or Flag Day, or Beat-Up-Some-Third-World-Country Day. It’s Bill of Rights Day. If there were to be only one holiday [...]
Free-Dom!
Sheriff Mack on a statewide tour with Debra Medina addresses people in Seguin Texas and explains the States Rights Supreme Court Victory he won against the Clinton administration.
Three Crimes, and Three Crimes Only
The Constitution specifies only three federal crimes-treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. So whether you think performing OR preventing an abortion is a crime – it’s still something that the federal government is not authorized to deal with. State Constitutions in California, Connecticut and elsewhere have a greater protection for the ability to have an abortion than [...]
Pay Up. Or Else.
On the nature of government, few in history have really hit the nail on the head better than the late, great Austrian, Ludwig von Mises: The government says to the citizen, Pay taxes or my armed constables will imprison you. A state or a government is an apparatus of coercion and compulsion. Within the territory [...]
Stockholm Syndrome for States?
Russell D. Longcore wrote a a fantastic article at LewRockwell.com on how the 50 states often act like slaves to the federal government. Here’s an excerpt: According to Wikipedia, the “Stockholm Syndrome” is a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the [...]
Rep. Tim Bishop: Wrong About the Constitution
Tim Bishop (D-NY) doesn’t believe that the Constitution was intended to do what the Founders and Ratifiers intended it to do (limit the power of government). Watch this video and get his version of the Constitution:
The Federal Government is NOT the United States
Early in my development as a human being, there was the pledge of allegiance. There was the National Anthem and of course, the Stars & Stripes. I grew up in Southern California and now that I have had a chance to deprogram myself (which has taken years) I have some questions- for one, where was [...]
Every day should be Constitution Day
Writes Josh Eboch: We the People must stop allowing our founding documents to be marginalized as artifacts of a long-dead history. We must demand that our natural rights, partially enumerated and fully protected by the Constitution, be recognized, respected, and restored. If we would deserve the freedom that has been passed down as our birthright [...]
Happy Constitution Day!
What a great day to be an American Patriot, eh? We are all faced with some of the most dire conditions and direction this republic has ever seen, beginning with the fact that Constitution Day, the commemoration of the signing of this nation’s most important document, is not met with parades and TV coverage but [...]
A Very American Distrust of Government
A good read from Alan Caruba: The men who waged the American Revolution and then met in secret to write the U.S. Constitution all shared a distrust of government. They understood government was necessary, but they wanted to keep a federal government small and ensure that most powers resided in the individual states and in [...]
Question of the Day: Legitimacy and Obedience
Ok, so it’s actually two questions, but they go hand in hand. From Paul Hein at Strike the Root: 1. If governmental action is NOT in accord with the Constitution, is the government legitimate? 2. If a government is not legitimate, can it command your obedience? My answers? ”No” and “only by force.”
