Tenther Blog

To declare “eternal enmity” against the British was not just tough talk - it was treason punishable by death. Yet, like so many of the Old Revolutionaries, Hancock embraced it ...

Same system. Different flag. The Revolutionaries Declared Independence in 1776 - and put their lives on the line to keep it. Yet today, the system we live under is virtually ...

When the Founders created the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they borrowed all three of its sayings from poems attributable to the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE): E ...

“A republic ... if you can keep it.” We’ve all heard Benjamin Franklin’s famous “constitution day” line. But he wasn’t warning about government, or even the Constitution itself. He was ...

As seen in the Declaration, the founders often used the word invasion for what happens when government violates your liberty and seizes power it was never given. To them, that ...

George Washington didn’t retire quietly - in his Farewell Address, he warned America what was coming. He described how power-hungry factions would tear the country apart, poisoning debate, inviting corruption, ...

Most people hear “invasion” and think of foreign armies crossing borders. But to the Founders and Old Revolutionaries the biggest danger was something very different - and far closer to ...

Government “investment” in private businesses will only worsen the twin plagues of corporatism and cronyism that afflict our political and economic systems ...

A people who don’t know the boundaries of government will never enforce them. And a government left to police itself will always break free of every restraint ...

Thomas Paine’s brutal demolition of a scam more dangerous than kings is one almost no one ever learns about. He showed how this scheme corrupts society, destroys trust, and unleashes ...

Constitution vs Articles of Confederation? Instead of a government that acted through the states, the constitution created something radically different - and almost no one today understands what that change ...

Two vague words gave Congress unlimited power. It’s the greatest Constitutional scam in American history. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton laid down the blueprint. Jefferson, Madison, and others immediately called it ...