Most people’s political convictions resemble those of Captain Renault from the classic film Casablanca; it blows with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be not entirely hostile to states’ rights.
But that will likely change.
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In 1798, President John Adams signed a bill into law criminalizing speech critical of the federal government. Today, the feds take a more subtle approach to controlling speech, but the spirit of the Sedition Act lives on.
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People tend to view the colonies as essentially homogeneous, but in fact, they differed significantly in their cultures, religions, economies and political views.
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Feature or flaw, states are not required to help enforce federal acts. Opting out of them is a powerful strategy to bring them to an end.
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Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution prohibited paper money at both a Congressional and state level.
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Today in 1790, future president of the United States John Tyler was born.
DetailsThe act required the colonists to quarter British soldiers at “inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider or metheglin.
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On March 23, 1775, tensions in Virginia were at their highest point during the imperial crisis with Britain.
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Today in 1766, British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants. On the same day, it also passed the Declaratory Act, a pronouncement that Parliament’s authority in North America was supreme and binding upon the colonies.
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The Constitution. Every issue, every time. No exceptions, no excuses.
