“invasions on the rights of the people.”
-Declaration of Independence
Most people hear the word invasion and think only of enemies crossing borders.
War is one of the most dangerous and frightening things that people can face.
And that’s exactly why politicians call everything a war.
War on poverty.
War on drugs.
War on crime.
War on terror.
Each one is used to terrify people into giving up more liberty in the name of “emergency” powers.
Even though the word “emergency” doesn’t exist in the Constitution.
The Founders saw something far more dangerous: government itself.
As seen in the Declaration, they often used invasion for what happens when government violates your liberty and seizes power it was never given. To them, that wasn’t a policy debate. It was a war against the people themselves.
And nearly a century before the Revolution, John Locke described the same truth in even harsher terms. He wrote that whenever legislators attempt to “take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves in a state of war with the people.”
Samuel Adams drove the point further. For him, invasion of rights wasn’t just abuse – it was “the most horrid rebellion.” And failing to defend those rights against anyone and everyone was treason itself.
Defending liberty isn’t optional. It’s a duty.
And that’s why the Tenth Amendment Center exists: to expose every invasion of your constitution and your rights – and rally people to defend them.
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As Adams put it in 1775:
“The people hold the Invasion of their Rights & Liberties the most horrid rebellion and a Neglect to defend them against any Power whatsoever the highest Treason.”
The greatest danger has always been from within. That’s why we work so hard every single day to reach and teach more and more people about these essential foundational principles from the Founders, the Old Revolutionaries – and the great thinkers they read and learned from.
The ultimate goal? “We the People” need to learn how to protect and defend our own constitution and our own liberty – whether the government likes it, or not.
(they don’t)
Concordia res parvae crescunt
(small things grow great by concord)
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