Freedom Isn’t Granted: It’s Exercised and Defended
Real freedom is when the people exercise their rights – whether the government likes it or not. In 1767, John Dickinson asked an essential question: “For WHO ARE A FREE PEOPLE?” He began answering his rhetorical question by emphasizing that free people don’t...
Who’s in Charge? The Founders on Sovereignty
“I say supreme absolute power is originally and ultimately in the people.” In Rights of the British Colonists Asserted and Proved, James Otis Jr. was describing “sovereignty.” Sovereignty simply means final and absolute authority. Therefore, those who have it...
Usurpation: Weapon to Destroy Freedom
The Declaration of Independence doesn’t have a list of “grievances.” That word isn’t even in the text. The Revolutionaries seceded from the British over a long list – a “long train” – of unconstitutional acts, what Thomas Jefferson called in the...